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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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