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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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