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TIL The world is running out of usable sand

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Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.
o1ao TIL Not all vampires were staked through the heart, some were staked through the leg to prevent them from rising from their coffins [post from /r/archeology]
XwLQ TIL there is a butter flavoring that used to be used in microwavable popcorn that causes “popcorn lung,” a dangerous and potentially fatal lung disease. Major popcorn companies only just began disusing the chemical in 2007.
epnxD TIL Lambskin condoms are made from the intestinal membrane of a lamb, and there are records of men using lambskin condoms during the early part of the Roman Empire.
La1p TIL UFC CEO Dana White has been banned from the Palm, The Hard Rock Hotel and other casinos for winning too much at Blackjack, thus he moves UFC venues when they ban him.