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Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy
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TIL maternal prepregnancy obesity was associated with an increased risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality through 1 year post partum; it appeared to be mediated by hypertensive disorders
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TIL Donnie Darko was filmed in 28 days which, coincidentally, virtually matches the time that transpired in the film. The movie took place between October 2nd, 1988 to the weekend party scene before Halloween on October 31st, 1988.
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TIL that the transformation of common metals into gold, a seemingly impossible goal attempted by alchemists for centuries, is now entirely possible using either a nuclear reactor or a particle accelerator. However, the process is so expensive that it is functionally useless.
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TIL that four times more people speak English as a second language (roughly two billion) than as a native one (approximately 350 million).
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TIL that"Piano Man", Billy Joel's signature song, is in the National Recording Registry, along with Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.