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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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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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