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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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