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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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