MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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