Originally Posted by
Syme
Fun facts: The bodies of fat people burn more readily than the bodies of thin people because human fat is, like many lipids, quite combustible; furthermore, as a fat person's body burns, body fat melts and "wicks" into their clothing, burning there and pulling more liquefied fat into the fabric of the clothing via the wicking action. This effect is suspected to be involved in the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion, which seems to affect obese people disproportionately. I bet she went up like a torch. Another reason not to be a fatty, I guess.
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