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TIL wet hay can spontaneously combust causing barn fires

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grVx7 TIL The “smoker’s lung” demo in schools is actually “inflatable swine lungs stained realistically” to “unforgettably demonstrate the effects of prolonged smoking”
6ERB7 TIL that Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, was buried wearing his iconic white suit and string bowtie
X0XMj TIL a wealthy New York family originally made their fortune from a brothel during the gold rush
8eQkL TIL that in Japan, there is a hotel run entirely by robots. From check-in to room service, everything is handled by a team of friendly machines
KYwZG TIL coconuts were "relatively common" in medieval England. In one instance from 1259, the Master of Sherborn Hospital willed a coconut cup to his niece.