Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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