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TIL California’s economy is the size of the bottom 24 states combined. It would rank 8th in the world if it were it’s own country - ahead of Italy, Russia, India, and 186 others.

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p8Ym8 Imagine you spent your entire childhood, teenage years, and young adulthood stuck inside a small closet. One day, after much of your life, has passed you by, you realize that you can just open up the door, change into some more appropriate clothes, and hit the town! Free at last, what would you do first? Maybe sing a bit? Go on a few dates? By the way, you have two to four weeks to live. Yikes. This is not unlike the situation most cicadas face, as they spend almost their entire lives underground. For example, many of the cicadas emerging in 2016 have been underground for 17 years! To put that in perspective, the last Star Wars movie these insects saw was literally a menace. Imagine waking up in a world without Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray! Come to think of it, things are really looking up since 1999. A cicada’s ear-piercing call is intended to attract a gal pal. Considering that these little creatures’ time above ground is so fleeting, they need to lock down a date as soon as possible. This could be why most cicadas are louder than the average fraternity pledge. Adult males are the ones making such a racket, and some species can register sounds louder 100 decibels when calling for a potential mate. In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur explains how cicadas sing such a loud song.
vPR9K TIL,the drug lord Chapo in a therapy session made public by the therapist admitted that he had only one addiction:women. The man also assured that he had at least 23 children.He was officially married three times. His last wife was 17 years old when the then 50-year-old chapo decided to marry her.
yQOKM TIL Once a guy parachuted on top of the Devil's Tower but got stuck there for six days because nobody knew how to get him down.
WEg8 TIL there’s a city in Georgia with 90 miles of golf cart paths parallel to the normal road network. More than 9000 families in Peachtree City use golf carts as their second car.
rRJKd TIL that the actor who plays Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia series is the direct descendant of both, Charles Darwin (on his father’s side) and the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh (on his mother’s side)