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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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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