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TIL claw machine games with live lobsters are a thing

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d8PD8 TIL that Apple doesn't let villains use iPhones in the movies????
d8VYd TIL alcohol breath is not from the stomach, rather it's from the ethanol diffusing out of the blood in the lungs. Eating food, chewing gum, or vomiting won't help mask how much alcohol is in your system if you're breathalyzed
BQkk TIL at the 2009 Grammy’s Miley Cyrus requested a backstage meeting with the members of rock band Radiohead. Lead singer, Thom Yorke, politely declined. After being snubbed by the band, Miley vowed to get revenge. “I’m gonna ruin them, I’m gonna tell everyone.”
p8kN TIL Leon Theremin invented the Rhythmicon, the world’s first drum-machine. Today is his birthday.
MeWlm TIL there is a theory that some of the Black Death was not bubonic plague, but a variant of a haemoratic fever. Those who survived may have passed this immunity through genetics which may account for the percentage of individuals who are immune to AIDS.