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TIL in 2015, a wine bar in the U.K. was fined £100,000 after a woman underwent lifesaving surgery to have her stomach removed, following her consumption of a liquid nitrogen cocktail. She had reportedly experienced "an explosion" in her stomach just four seconds after the drink was poured for her.

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