According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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