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Aug 4, 2016 • 4min
Crap’s Spontaneously Combusting in Upstate New York
HUMANS DON’T SPONTANEOUSLY combust, but manure does. A stable full of manure caught fire last week in Throop, New York, leaving the town smelling … unpleasant. The horses aren’t to blame, though. Microbes are.
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