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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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