Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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