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TIL the last mail stage robbery in the Old West occurred near Jarbidge, Nevada, in 1916. During this incident, mail carrier Fred Searcy was killed, and $4,000 was stolen—a sum that was never recovered. Ben Kuhl was caught and was the first person convicted of murder based on palm print evidence.

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6E96X You’re in luck. For their senior project, two Cornell University computer-engineering whizzes recently built a machine that does just that. After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled a fart detector from a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor, a thermometer and a microphone and wrote the software that would rate the emission. A “slight perturbance in the air” near the detector sets it to work measuring the three pillars of fart quality: stench, temperature and sound. Temperature, Clain explains, is critical.
mx96R TIL being overweight, but not obese, results in a lower mortality rate than being in the "normal" range (using BMI as a measure).
jAXX TIL that the word ‘Jebus’ as used in the Simpsons is in fact an old name for Jerusalem, named after the tribe who had built it.
v1LER TIL since 2011 in Maricopa county Arizona restaurants can avoid posting failed inspection grades from the health department by opting out of the heating system at inspection time
m1wAy TIL Musician Col. Bruce Hampton died while performing at his 70th birthday tribute concert with Rolling Stones, Allman Bros, Phish and many others all on hand!