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TIL hay bales that are too wet have a higher chance of spontaneously combusting, and “excessive moisture is the most common cause of hay fires.”

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vO5K TIL that on this 150th anniversary week of the Emancipation Proclamation you can listen to the actual voices of emancipated slaves, their first-hand stories recorded in 1930.
e1GE TIL Katana produced during Japans feudal period are far superior to any other sword to come out of the country at any other time.
W7k1o TIL that songwriter Joni Mitchell only released a greatest hits album, "Hits", on the condition that she released a "Misses" album to go with it.
p8bL4 TIL of Japanese General and Poet, Nogi Maresuke, who took Port Arthur twice - from China (1894) and Russian (1904), sought permission from the emperor to kill himself as felt he lost too many soldiers in battle, was refused, so waited eight years and committed suicide right after the emperor died.
Rjrw TIL that divers in the Dead Sea have to carry 90 pounds of weight to lower their buoyancy so they can descend