Hello! Here’s a public service announcement: Please do not microwave your library books. (2020 is SO WEIRD.)

 However, if you want to try this redesigned gin vending machine, I’m all for it.

People have always been interested in “weird news,” such as the above. Sir Hans Sloane lived in a few hundred years ago and collected strange news items along with his scientific research! (The British Library’s “Untold Lives” blog is the source of this gem, and highly recommended.)