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Short answer: At least one in 50 scientists is doing something fishy

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4k8Y5 TIL Banana peels are edible.
oBBNo TIL that in a matter of minutes the Chicxulub meteorite impact (of dino killing fame) created a hole 30km deep and then an isostatic rebound higher than the Himalayas before collapsing.
x6vek TIL that only 0.1% of paracetamol/acetaminophen overdoses end in death and it takes 4 to 18 days for death to occur.
4XV0b TIL Sofia Coppola wrote the lead of Lost in Translation, for Bill Murray. She didn't know him, spent a year trying to track him down, including asking random people who knew him through golf. Eventually she showed him the script, but he didn’t commit. She flew to Japan to film not sure if he’d show.
a8dL0 TIL that Because American and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with soldier from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.