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TIL The world is running out of usable sand

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nW5W7 TIL - The amount of water in Lake Superior can cover all of North and South America in 1 foot of water
PnVZ TIL that there’s a satirical news website in Romania called “Times New Roman”
7pVx TIL- the old lady in the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case” suffered severe 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body and needed skin grafts. The media blew it up to favor tort reform and the settlement in the case was the calculation of coffee sales McDonalds made in two days.
XbD6 TIL Time doesn’t actually (even perceivably) appear to slow down during life threatening situations - the brain simply makes more dense and detailed memories of the event which makes it seem in retrospect to have lasted longer.
vneK TIL - Netherlands has a plan where flooding the country could be used as a defence strategy and this can easily be done by destroying various flood defences in case of attack by a foreign country.