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

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nWnXd TIL that cardiovascular diseases cause an estimated 17.9 million deaths per year, most often (4 out of 5) through heart attack and stroke. One third of these deaths occur prematurely, or under the age of 70.
d8AoZ TIL Prince's label had to send floppy discs with a special font on it to the media after changing his name to a symbol, so they could type it.
OGLe4 TIL about the uncanny valley, which describes the unsettling feeling caused by a robot or computer generated model that looks almost human but is not convincing enough to look like an actual human
QNNW9 TIL Marty McFly's return trip to 1985 in Back to the Future was originally planned to occur at a nuclear test site explosion. Producers opted not to use the idea due to being too expensive to produce.
16Zbr TIL that unlike France and Germany, the Dutch take offense to foreign media dubbed in their native language and would prefer to watch them with Dutch subtitles