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TIl that it is impossible to actually sink in quicksand.

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0wrL5 TIL Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother. The boyfriend was a known abuser.
e069E TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, rejected religion, and considered himself a humanist. Around age 14 he concluded that religion was nonsense. According to Ronald D. Moore, Roddenberry "felt very strongly that contemporary Earth religions would be gone by the 23rd century."
Vxr8 TIL there is a statistically significant increase in fatal car accidents in the days after daylight savings time, presumably due to disruption in sleep patterns.
Ooxj1 TIL Kirkpatrick MacMillan, who invented the bicycle (disputed) also has the first recorded instance of a bicycle traffic offense, when he knocked over a pedestrian in Glasgow and was fined 5 shillings.
O456 TIL that the fastest spinning Neutron star known to man, rotates at 716 complete rotations per second.