In his stand-up comedy special "New in Town," comedian John Mulaney joked about the oversaturation of quicksand on childhood TV shows: "I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger ...

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“I didn’t think that was real.” That’s the reply I kept hearing from both coworkers and readers after we wrote about backpacker Austin Dirks’s rescue from a quicksand pit in Arches National Park in ...