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TIL: Elizabeth Klarer - A 20th century Afrikaner woman who claimed that she dated an extraterrestrial being and gave birth to a little alien.

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0w0AL TIL about the "Oozlefinch", a featherless bird that flies backward at supersonic speed carrying Nike missiles and was the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Army Coastal Artillery.
mxnxx TIL that 7 Up launched a variation called "dnL" (the 7up logo turned upside down) and was basically the opposite of 7 Up: instead of a caffiene-free clear soda in a green bottle, it was a caffienated green soda in a clear bottle, and instead of lemon-lime the flavor was lime-lemon.
0ddGN TIL that the Feeling of "impending doom" is an official symptom of a Wrong blood type Transfusion. (ABO incompatibility)
b6PXp TIL about Violet Jessop who not only survived the sinking of the Titanic and her sister ship Britannic but was also on board the Olympic when it collided with another ship
jNPZQ TIL almost every species of cactus in the world grows in the Americas, except for the mistletoe cactus which grows in the tropics of Africa. It's unknown why this is the only cactus species outside of the Americas.