The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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