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It can. I heard a terrible story: a group of Boy Scouts decided to do a service project and refinished all the woodwork in the church that sponsored their troop. They used mineral spirits-soaked cloths, and left a pile of them in the church. Spontaneous combustion happened and destroyed the church.

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