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TIL the next periodical emergence of the 13- and 17-year cicada broods is 2024. The last time these insects co-emerged was 221 years ago while Thomas Jefferson was president.

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VLnp TIL: the “1 in 5 college girls are sexually assaulted” study included “forced kissing” and “sexual activity while intoxicated” as sexual assault, which is how they got the 1 in 5 number.
rDAo TIL that people born on the island of Bali, Indonesia are traditionally given one of four names based on their birth order within the family. The first child is called ‘oldest’, the second 'middle’, etc. The cycle repeats itself after the fourth, where the fifth child is called 'oldest again’.
5D8Q TIL that Stevie Wonder is blind because he was born six weeks premature, which, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition in which the growth of the eyes is aborted and causes the retinas to detach
W7rD9 TIL that Phoenix’s new baseball expansion team held a “name the team” contest in 1998 with “Scorpions” as the overwhelming winner, but the team’s owner ignored the results and chose Diamondbacks.
KYpZR TIL about "Hypervelocity Stars"—rare stars that have been physically kicked out of the Milky Way by the supermassive black hole at its center. They travel at speeds up to 2 million mph, fast enough to permanently escape the galaxy's gravity and spend eternity drifting through the empty void.