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TIL wet hay can spontaneously combust causing barn fires

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X0GR TIL that nearly the entire student body and faculty of Ole Miss joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
Bry6x TIL Traditional Chinese medicine has helped to push species including tigers, rhinoceroses, sea horses and pangolins to the brink of extinction. Demand has surged over the past few decades as China’s wealthy population has grown. Global demand is rising as a key pillar of China’s State Council.
R7ka TIL An Oregon teacher was criticized after licking the wounds on a track team member’s knee, a football player’s arm, and another high school student’s hand. A public health officer commented, “…my very strong recommendation is that you confine yourself to licking your own wounds.”
LQP0V TIL Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez not only proved the asteroid extinction of the dinosaurs, but also worked on the Manhattan Project AND flew over Hiroshima during the atomic bombing.
rGlM TIL biologists have revived 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from Antarctic ice