You never hear much about 'spontaneous combustion ' anymore, where people just burst into flames while sitting in their chair

Maybe cause there"s less smokers and drinkers that was thought to be a factor. I remember seeing photos of scorched chairs which was all that remained from latest casualty who'd been reduced to ashes while watching tv

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Richard65 · M

In Charles Dickens' 1853 novel Bleak House, the character Mr. Krook famously dies by what Dickens describes as spontaneous combustion. I did a talk on it to the class as a school project when I was ten (I was perhaps a slightly strange child).

atlantic59 · 61-69, M

@Richard65 you were just a curious lad