Nirvana ignited an audience that didn't even know it was flammable in 1991, and no one -- even those close to the band -- foresaw that spontaneous combustion.

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In the latest episode of spontaneous combustion, Takara is being forced to recall specific Hello Kitty dolls which featured a heatable disc that could be warmed and stuffed within the lining to keep kids toasty while resting.

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These intense solar flares were observed by a British scientist named Richard Carrington back in 1859 who correlated them as the cause of spontaneous combustion of telegraph wires and offices - the relatively tiny telecommunications infrastructure then-available to be disrupted.

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Even if the idea did arise as some kind of spontaneous Cincinnati political combustion, where could they possibly have come up with the idea that targeting the tea party might be a good career move?

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