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TIL claw machine games with live lobsters are a thing

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VQAm TIL That for every dollar the US owes another country, it is owed 89 cents in foreign debt
NB7e TIL On his deathbed, unable to speak, Aldous Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for an injection of LSD
9YZA6 TIL A 227-year-old tree planted by George Washington was pulled down by the wind last year.
xVDrg TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. considered running for president in 1968 after being urged to by anti-Vietnam Democrats, but ultimately decided against the proposal as he felt uneasy with politics and considered himself better suited for his morally unambiguous role as an activist.
vPVbK TIL that the infamous (Sylvia Plath) suicide technique of sticking one's head in an oven was not a hot, violent affair. Rather, ovens used to run on "town gas" that had high carbon monoxide, and putting your head in an unlit oven was a rather peaceful way to go.