At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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