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 most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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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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