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TIL that bails of hay can spontaneously combust if they contain too much moisture.

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dDV68 TIL that 13 innocent men were exonerated because of lab technician Mary Jane Burton's habit, dating back to 1977, of scotch taping small samples of tested evidence to her lab records, even though doing so violated the official policy to destroy all evidence after it was tested.
VBjk TIL A man who refuses to wear clothes has been in Scottish prison for 6 years in total.
XEGd6 TIL that bicameralism - the idea that humans once had two independent ‘entities’ in the brain - theorises that ‘gods’ were just voices heard by the ancient human, and religious rituals were just an attempt to hear the ‘gods’ again once modern consciousness evolved.
4LKo TIL that Norwegian oil company Statoil is selling one of their oil platforms. “Well kept 20 bedroom platform for sale. Panorama sea view and plenty of room for a helicopter.”
YpXpG TIL in 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.