Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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