One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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