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Stat: A billion cicadas isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A trillion cicadas. You’ll soon find out just how cool, since that is about how many of the inch-long flying freaks will emerge from their underground hideouts in the Midwest and Southeast this May. If you were to line all those cicadas up, they would reach the moon and back 33 times, a Smithsonian bug expert told the New York Times.
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The reason for the comically large number of cicadas soon to torment your children is that two different broods are emerging at the same time, which hasn’t happened since 1803 and won’t happen again for another 221 years. On the bright side, cicadas don’t bite, sting, or carry diseases, so they are more annoying than dangerous.
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