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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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