In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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