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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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