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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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