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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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