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TIL It's physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand

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NXn68 TIL domestic cats are one of the most prolific and deadly hunters on the planet. its estimated cats kill 2.4 billion birds per year in the US alone and in Australia they have helped drive at least 20 native species to extinction. They are such good hunters they are considered an invasive species.
rXDe TIL that color-blindness in humans happens when a person has two visual processing cones instead of the usual three. There is a flipside, that there are people who have a condition known as Tetrachromacy, where someone has four cones, potentially allowing them to see more of the visible spectrum.
N7PBM TIL that elephants are scared of bees even though a bee sting does not penetrate their hide
78OAZ TIL that there are physical walls separating Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Northern Ireland as a way to minimize violence between them.
N7QR1 TIL Mithridates VI was a king who in an attempt to protect himself from assassins built up an immunity to poison by dosing himself with them. After the Romans stormed his complex he tried to kill himself with poison but it failed and he had to get his bodyguard to do it for him.