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TIL oily rags can catch fire from self combustion including Linseed Oil

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ANAkd TIL: The mistreatment of African diplomats forced the United States government to clamp down on racism. This would help push the Civil rights act to pass in July 1964.
KO4KG TIL there are 96 bags of human waste left behind on the Moon by the six Apollo missions that landed there.
699vQ TIL: The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 1016%; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.
wLYnE TIL: Nearly every copier built since 2002 contains a drive storing an copy of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.