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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Your brain is 80% water.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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