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TIL claw machine games with live lobsters are a thing
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TIL That for every dollar the US owes another country, it is owed 89 cents in foreign debt
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TIL On his deathbed, unable to speak, Aldous Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for an injection of LSD
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TIL A 227-year-old tree planted by George Washington was pulled down by the wind last year.
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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.
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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.