HowStuffWorks used to be full of expert animations of automatic transmissions and helicopters around 2006 but they had a multipart article on spontaneous combustion, with anecdotes of 1890s people who retained too much ethanol.

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card_zero a day ago | parent [-]

Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20090510082422/http://science.ho... (3 pages, and refs)

	▲	xattt a day ago \| parent [-]
		Those forms of articles (along with Straight Dope) were the ultimate dopamine rush back then, and now it just doesn’t hit the same.