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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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