Today I Learned(TIL) is an interesting sub-Reddit on the
popular blogging website Reddit.com. Without going into too much detail, Reddit
is a blogging website where as a member one can blog about anything they want,
usually it is to spark a conversation within the blog. Depending on how well
the blog is writing or how interesting the blog is, a blog may be “upvoted” and
depending on how many upvotes a blog has depends on the order of the list of
blogs on the main page of Reddit. The more upvotes a blog has the higher the
blog goes on the list with the ultimate goal of being a blog on the front page
of Reddit. A sub-Reddit is simply a smaller form of Reddit within Reddit with the
purpose of categorizing blogs based on the topic of the blog. So Today I
Learned is a sub-Reddit where Redditors can post interesting links to websites
where the poster found something that is not common knowledge, hence the name
Today I Learned. So today I learned that no one can actually drown from
quicksand, interesting right. Hollywood among other factors has skewed the
public’s idea of how quicksand works. Quicksand is a mixture of sand, water,
clay and salt, which when in the right concentration creates an amorphous
solid. When the mixture is not disturbed, the quicksand has a solid form, but
when something such as a foot is placed on the quicksand, it snaps out of equilibrium.
The sand falls to the bottom of the mixture and the water stays on top, this is
why when you fight the quicksand you sink. If the motion stops, the mixture
starts to become solid again, the whole process is similar to the corn starch
and water solution that you may or may not have seen growing up. Anyways many
people think that this is the end of the road for them, that they will sink
into the ground never to be seen again. This is false, because quicksand is
roughly twice as dense as humans are so according to Chase Smith, you would
only sink half way.
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