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 smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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