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TIL hay bales can spontaneously combust if their moisture content exceeds 22%

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YpYN7 TIL That in the middle ages in Europe, using a fork instead of hands while eating was seen as unchristian and insulting to god.
y0np TIL in 1986, at the height of apartheid, Glasgow, Scotland changed the name of the square where the South African consulate-general was based to Nelson Mandela Place, forcing the South African attaché to have to write this address if they wanted to receive mail.
loK4V TIL in one 13th-century version of the King Arthur myth, Merlin is the spawn of a demon and a mortal woman and was intended by Satan to be the Antichrist, but was baptized by a priest shortly after birth which nullified Satan's plan, and now uses his demonic powers of magic and prophecy for good.
8eR7K TIL that Coretta Scott King graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and was a classically trained singer who gave Freedom Concerts to raise money for the Civil Rights Movement.
l7W41 TIL 9-yr-old Jodie Foster was mauled by a lion on the set of Napoleon and Samantha, leaving her with scars on her back & stomach. While being held sideways in its mouth & shook "like a doll", she saw the crew running off. The lion did drop her when told to, but it left her with lifelong ailurophobia