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 force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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