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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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