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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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