Sorry I know it’s meant to be fun but this fact saddens me immensely when you realise how much the system has been manipulated for profit in the US:
7. Banting sold the insulin patent for $1
Banting refused to add his name to the insulin patent because he found it unethical for a doctor to benefit from a discovery that saved lives. His colleagues, James Collip and Charles Best, eventually sold the insulin patent for a symbolic dollar to the University of Toronto.