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Can humans spontaneously combust? The baffling cases explained. (www.popsci.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In his view, the missing factor is that other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets and drink whiskey and smoke,” he says.

But what is they did?

John DeHaan, a forensic scientist, set fire to a pig carcass wrapped in blankets

Science!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least they had the decency to use a dead pig

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

But living burning pigs are hilarious!

At least according to toddler me who invented a "joke" about a burning pig which was put out by a firefighter. I thought it was hilarious. A burning pig! The firefighter was soooo confused!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets

uh lots of animals are naturally wrapped in blankets, and fat for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fat sheep is hella flammable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I clicked on them in Warcraft 3