Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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