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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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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