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 force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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