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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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