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TIL of an Internet Mystery involving a Cicada which has never been solved.

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JYBd1 Today I learned that moon rocks are a “National Treasure” and cannot be sold in the United States of America.
KYMNw TIL Star Wars Episode IV was one of the first movies to use CGI
xeyD TIL in 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
N7amE TIL of the band Grouplove who was the first band in the United States to be certified climate friendly
J1bRm TIL Ants can end up following each other in a cercle (called an ant mill or a death spiral), until they die of exhaustion. Similar phenomena have been noted in processionary caterpillars and fish.