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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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