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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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x6AZB TIL The hookworm parasite is believe to have contributed to the stereotype that the people in the US South were lazy.
ADEVl TIL: Tibetan Monks spend weeks/months carefully "pouring" colored sand to make a very detailed and complex museum-worthy artwork that is known as the "Sand Mandala". Once complete, these intricate paintings are then ritualistically destroyed and that symbolizes the Buddhist belief of impermanence.
oByv8 TIL Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. He didn't make a single move. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm.
awwn0 TIL that the sting of the tarantula hawk wasp is so painful the medical advice is to lie down and scream
PYNDO TIL that born-blind people actually dream of visual content. That's because auditory and tactile inputs can create virtual images in their brain, and that images can be revealed in their dreams.