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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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