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TIL wet hay can spontaneously combust causing barn fires

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xVLob TIL Mac Hadley, experimented on himself by injecting a sunless tanning compound he was working on, but instead it gave him an eight-hour erection along with nausea and vomiting
4kyg5 TIL when David Lynch was asked by fans for clues or answers regarding one of his films, he'd typically refuse; however when fans in France asked him for clues to help them decipher Mulholland Drive (2001), he gave them 10. "I thought the clues were only going to exist in France & then..the internet"
E1JBp TIL that life under chronic hypoxia has multiple advantages for humans including an overall higher lifespan.
v18BR TIL that Pat Morita, Mr. Miyagi, started out as a stand up comic and considered Redd Foxx his mentor
b9RBa TIL that, in 1846, planet Neptune's exact location was predicted by three astronomers studying the eccentric orbits of several distant asteroids. The data hinted at the presence of a giant, distant planet. Neptune was found on the very first night, only 1° off its predicted position.