Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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