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TIL that, Cards against Humanity bought an island to preserve wildlife

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R1m6 TIL Quicksand alone is considered harmless, and it’s impossible for humans or animals to actually drown in.
ADp8B TIL that uncooked spaghetti always break into more than two parts, a curious fact that already baffled Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The riddle was only solved last year by scientists who managed to make spaghetti snap into only two parts with a trick.
GY6aJ TIL the FDA allows 11 rodent hairs per 25g paprika, 60 parasitic cysts per 100 fish, 2500 aphids per 10g of hops, and 1 maggot per 250ml orange juice
78bnO TIL that until the 1950s teaching of sign language in Australia was split along religious lines: Protestants learnt Auslan based on British Sign Language (BSL) while Catholics taught by Irish nuns learnt Australian Irish Sign Language (AISL). There are now only a few AISL speakers left.
vDE7 TIL that some Syrian rebels are using the Sturmgwehr 44, an assault rifle produced in Nazi Germany in late WW2 and which can be worth up to $30'000 in the US