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

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m1YBO TIL 57.5% of College Graduates Don't Work in Their Field of Study
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7rk6X TIL that author Joe Hill, Stephen King's son, went ten years of successful independent writing before announcing his relationship to his dad - not even his agent knew.
e81J TIL of Roman Emperor Pertinax who was murdered by his imperial bodyguard so that they could auction off the empire to the highest bidder