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 left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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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