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TIL The Atari 2600 game "Extra Terrestrials" is almost unknown. Only 100 were produced and they were sold door to door locally in Ontario

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R5vA6 TIL of the plant Hydnora africana. It has no roots, leaves or chlorophyll and, apart from its flower, lives entirely underground.
J1n0l TIL Ellen Burstyn (mom in the original Exorcist) was stalked by her schizophrenic ex-husband who assaulted her in the 70s, but couldn’t legally file charges against him because that was not a crime then
0d0g1 TIL that in 1952, the United States Air Force airlifted more than 3500 pilgrims from Lebanon to Jeddah to complete their hajj, after airlines at Beirut couldn't hand the surge of passengers.
v7mB TIL that 1.7 billion years ago, there was a natural nuclear reactor that ran for a few hundred thousand years.
E1XMp TIL both the 1988 revival of The Munsters and the 1998 revival of The Addams Family produced more episodes than the original shows