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

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Y7gbv TIL - The European polecat occasionally cripples its prey by piercing its brains with its teeth and stores it, still living, in its burrow for future consumption.
R7Z7j TIL Culhuacan king allowed a small migrant Aztec tribe, the Mexica, to settle on his lands. 24 years later they sought marriage with the Culhuacan princess. Rather than marry her, the Mexica sacrificed her, then invited her father to a banquet where a priest wore her flayed skin as a garment.
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