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 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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