Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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