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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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