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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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    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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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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    No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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    Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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