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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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