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TIL it's impossible to sink beyond your waist height in quicksand

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D1MLe TIL North Korea has made a single video game. "Pyongyang Racer" is a racing game reminiscent of 32-bit era graphics. It was developed by university students and published by the country's travel company
OGbye TIL what chaos can occur when coal burning is not regulated: The 1952 Great smog of London
x6yWo TIL more than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders, including all but one living U.S. president
MeQG8 TIL that the “seeds" you see on the outside of a strawberry are actually the plant's ovaries and are called "achenes." Each “seed" is technically a separate fruit that has a seed inside of it.
1A5P TIL it’s only called an acronym when you pronounce the abbreviation as a real word (ex. NASA). Otherwise it is known as an initialism (ex. FBI).