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TIL the the 1960s was the heyday for the Quicksand trope - almost 3% of films showed characters sinking in clay, mud, or sand.

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vwDD TIL the Facebook co-founders were required to pay a huge amount of taxes when Facebook went public. It was around this time one of the five Facebook co-founders Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore. He avoided paying $600,000,000 in taxes.
1YVX TIL the Common Kestral used to be called a “Windfucker”
ONg TIL that in a 2008 survey 62% of Egyptian men freely admited perpetrating sexual harassment, with 98% of foreign women claiming they had experienced harassment
nWeXo TIL that after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his wins, seven successive Tour de France races (1999-2005) were officially declared without winners because so many riders who finished behind Armstrong were also associated with doping offences.
bOV9 TIL that Mount Everest is completely blanketed in 3G network coverage and has been since 2010. All the way to the summit.