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TIL that cicadas are the world’s loudest insects; their singing can be as loud as 100 decibels

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v1r8D TIL in 2012, UK radio station Jazz FM accidentally broadcast 5 minutes of pornographic material after a engineer plugged in a laptop to the output and opened a personal email. The station was not fined by the regulator Ofcom.
9YyJG TIL that if the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted it would blanket the entirety of the U.S in a layer of ash, as well as most of North America. What would ensue is a potential decade or so of 'Volcanic Winter', where the global temperature would drop significantly, among other issues.
69egw TIL a former professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley named Gregory Abbott became a musician and in 1987 topped the charts in the U.S. with his song "Shake You Down"
J1gJl TIL the concept of romantic-sexual kissing was not practiced in the Americas prior to European contact. Anthropologists theorize a link between social complexity and romantic-sexual kissing, and many modern hunter-gatherer societies still do not practice romantic-sexual kissing between partners.
nNo TIL that Diane van Deren, one of the world’s top ultra-runners, didn’t start running until a seizure crippled her ability to form new memories. She has the psychological advantage of never knowing how far she has left to run.