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 Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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