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TIL wet hay can spontaneously combust causing barn fires

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DQKmJ TIL in 1996 when Wendy Day took Eminem's demo to different labels, she couldn’t get any of them to even consider signing him because he's white. So she created the Rap Olympics to showcase his talent & bring attention back to lyricism. At the event, Em made the contact that led to signing a deal.
N7kwQ TIL that the outermost part of the solar system, the Oort Cloud, has not been directly observed, but is hypothesized partly on the basis of long-period comets such as Halley's Comet
XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.
Zppa TIL: Hollow point bullets are not allowed in war, yet many police forces around the globe utilize them. Sweden is one of the countries which do…
Oo6oY TIL that Nintendo's Mario takes his name from Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo's American Headquarters in Seattle. After coming into the warehouse to berate Minoru Arakawa for late rent, the game developers changed the name of their main character from "Jumpman" to Mario.