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

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YpnOd TIL that the New York Mets are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla, a man who last played for them in 1999, $1.19 million per year until 2035
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GYPpG TIL the reason we write from left to right is to not smudge ink. The Greeks (from whom English is derived) mostly had right handed stone workers and when they began to use papyrus, left to right allowed them to see what they were writing as well as prevent ruining the paper by smudging the ink
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