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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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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