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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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