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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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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 most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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