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    Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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    In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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    Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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    The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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