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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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