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    The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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    Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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