Fact #10 | How Much Wood?

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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

This little tongue twister isn't just nonsense. Richard Thomas, a New York State wildlife expert, found that woodchucks actually do chuck wood. When digging a burrow they can chuck about 35 cubic feet of food. So he estimated that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it would chuck about 700lb if he really wanted to. 

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