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TIL oily rags can spontaneously self-ignite because the oil reacts with oxygen in a reaction to produce heat, and a bunched up cloth can trap the heat enough to reach ignition temperatures.

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woGeM TIL that the earliest known published collection of liturgical music in Hebrew was published exactly 400 years ago, in 1623, by Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the court of Mantua, Italy, who was so well-thought of that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge required of Jews
p8RNZ TIL: The Beethoven family is not German, but Belgian. The grandfather was a talented singer and later became music master (Kapelmeister) at the Court of Bonn. His talents jumped a generation to manifest in the grandson, who had the same name as the grandfather: Ludwig van Beethoven!
69Vg8 TIL that when Buddy Holly died 6 months after being married, his widow inherited everything but signed 50% over to his family.
8aZpa TIL there's an island on the Pacific that was founded by mutineers, today it has a population of only 50, and in 2004 8 men were convicted of sexual crimes against minors, a full 1/3 of the male population of the island. They had to build a prison to imprison them.
Rar6 TIL sprint training for 60 minutes a week burns the same amount of body fat in men as jogging for seven hours a week