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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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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