Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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