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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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