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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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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