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TIL that pistachios can spontaneously combust if packed in bulk.

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Be7W TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the Andes mountain range. It was swung out of a plane, which crashed in 1972. Realizing the owner of the wallet was one of the 16 survivors, he returned it to him, 32 years later.
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