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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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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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