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TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism

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WNMY TIL B.B King saved his Guitar from a burning building caused by a fight between two men. The men were fighting over a lady named Lucille and B.B King named his guitar after her as a reminder to never fight over a woman or run into burning buildings.
6Ej7W TIL a man suffered a flash fire in his chest cavity during emergency heart surgery caused by supplemental oxygen leaking from a ruptured lung.
8evK8 TIL that some artificial raspberry flavorings are harvested from the castor sacs of beavers, which are located near the beaver's cloaca (excretory opening), giving the flavoring the nickname "beaver taint".
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