→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Green Coca-Cola... and 5 other everyday myths https://youtu.be/EmUo-TEP2FU?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO The Coming Banana Apocalypse https://youtu.be/pCpmtI6oDLM?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF In this video: Perhaps the most important and misunderstood aspect of defining wood as either hard or soft is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the individual qualities of the harvested wood itself. The most famous and oft used example of this concept is that of balsa wood which, despite being literally one of the least dense (and hence softest) woods of all, is technically classified as hardwood. Likewise, the wood of the yew tree, which is classified as being a softwood, is a great deal tougher than many hardwoods including several types of oak. So what’s going on here? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/05/surprising-truth-difference-hard-woods-soft-woods/ Sources: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hardwood_vs_Softwood http://www.hoovedesigns.com/woods.html http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-density-d_40.html http://ejmas.com/tin/2009tin/tinart_goldstein_0904.html http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/f/Tree_ID_wood.htm http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=angiosperm http://arboretum.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013-70-4-beyond-pine-cones-an-introduction-to-gymnosperms.pdf https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ADuToINdSQQC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paul+Hermann+angiosperm&source=bl&ots=syLvej-BBQ&sig=u4deqof1lwmcFAwDMid9KCmb7aQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UAvAVL6-GIOrU5WugaAJ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Paul%20Hermann%20angiosperm&f=false http://dooblydo.c