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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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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