Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
42
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.
41
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
18
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
57
Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
84