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TIL locusts are just angry, swarming, grasshoppers that have been agitated enough that they transform

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6ELGY TIL when The Cure's Robert Smith interviewed David Bowie, his started by asserting: ‘We can both agree you’ve never done anything good since 1982.’
GYyjN TIL that the original radio broadcast War of the Worlds In 1938 did not induce mass panic across the US as widely believed and that the hysteria was actually just an early example of fake news being reported by the newspapers.
X0kWX TIL: SS Christopher Columbus, the only 'Whaleback' ship ever built for passenger service, carried more passengers in her 40-year career than any other ship on the Great Lakes.
ne5Eb TIL of the 1988 Armenian Earthquake. The initial more powerful quake lasted approximately 20 seconds and anywhere from 25-50 thousand people were killed with over half a million structures destroyed.
a87R0 TIL That Oganesson-118 atom is very unstable and since 2005 only 5 atoms have been detected of the isotope oganesson-294. It's most stable isotope has a half life of 0.89 milliseconds.