Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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