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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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