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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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