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 left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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