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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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