Super glue, when applied to cotton, can cause sudden and significant increases in temperature. The internet would have you believe this can spark fires. I’m not so sure about that, but wisps of smoke aren’t uncommon, and my daughter has a burn mark on her arm from when she accidentally set her sleeve against wet super glue.

This is one of my favorite random factoids. I plan to deploy it as soon as somebody hands me a “favorite random factoids” category in My Favourite Things, a blend of trick-taker and party deduction game by Japanese designers Daiki Aoyama and Pepe_R.

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