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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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