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 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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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