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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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