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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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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