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 storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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