From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

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Moment of Um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Mark D Snark, the Pool Shark.

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Yes, I'm an actual tiger shark, but I'm also a pool shark, and that means I'm very, very good at playing pool, aka billiards.

You know, that human game where players try to use long sticks to knock colorful numbered balls into holes on a table. You can find me six days a week at my establishment, Marquis Snark's underwater pool palace. We have some mint-conditioned pool

and billiard tables that came from a capsized cargo boat. We're always finding stuff that humans

drop in the ocean.

They seem like a very accident-prone species.

And just the other day, one of my guys, Frankie, he comes in and he says,

Hey boss, look what I found.

One of them eight balls like from billiards.

But this one's big in plastic, and it answers questions. So I take a look at this big eight ball, and sure as squids, there's a floaty triangle with words on it.

I shake it, the triangle flips around, and now there's different words.

Amazing what you humans come up with.

And Lillian was just asking the other day, how do magic

eight balls work? I think we need a toy expert to help us answer this one. The Magic 8 Ball is essentially a liquid-filled sphere with one lens on the side, and it is filled with a dyed blue alcohol solution.

My name is Chris Bench.

I'm chief curator at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York,

the biggest museum of toys, dolls, games, video games in the world.

The Magic 8 Ball actually started in Cincinnati, Ohio as a device to contact people beyond the grave. It was a little

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