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TIL Fire doesn't actually ignite materials, it just makes them reach their self combustion temperature

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VO0D TIL Vin Diesel is a huge fan of Dungeons & Dragons, having played it for over 20 years including nights off when he was a bouncer, and wrote the foreward to the commemorative book “30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons”.
KORrG TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.
aw8Ry TIL In 18th century England, some wealthy landowners would hire "ornamental hermits" - poor people dressed in a Druid costume to live in rustic homes in their garden, which may have inspired garden gnome statues
R5R7 TIL that Nearly Half of All Black Women Have Genital Herpes
4Ze5 TIL the second Shah of Iran built a marble slide for his underground baths that was specifically designed for women in his harem to use to slide “into the arms of their lord and master before being playfully dunked in a pool.”