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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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