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TIL it is virtually impossible to die from sinking to the bottom and suffocating if you get trapped in quicksand

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ABY4 TIL a Soviet soccer player was so popular that when he was sent to the Siberian gulags during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, he was treated rather well as the gulag commanders were also his fans, who gave him better quarters and food rations, and was even asked to coach the local teams.
XEZ9E TIL that J.R.R Tolkien & C.S Lewis were good friends who had beers together at the local pub, and there's a good chance the LoTR/Narnia books were, at times, being written right next to each other.
K1xw TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.
Y70Mv TIL in 1996 Ali Dia convinced Graham Souness manager of Southampton he was cousin of footballer George Weah and had played with him.He was signed and made his debut against Leeds where he was so bad he had his contract terminated. They later found out he had never played professional football before
N7Pee TIL that the average value of a person's data is about 30 cents.