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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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