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 single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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