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TIL Jimmy Carter called Egyptian president Sadat’s assassination in 1981 “one of the worst days of my life.” Carter knew Sadat's successsor, Mubarak, quite well. Decades later, Carter became disappointed and stopped speaking to Mubarak because he "talks like a politician"

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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.
ZpYW4 TIL the composer for the theme song of “the Rugrats” is Mark Mothersbaugh, cofounder of Devo.
gr6gD TIL moss grows in sloths' fur, and there's a moth species that only lives in sloth fur moss. Sloths make risky descents to defecate rather than defecating from the canopy so moths which lay eggs in their dung and make their moss more nutritious can live in their moss.
KOyl6 TIL when two soldiers in the Canadian Airborne beat a Somalian teenager to death, and then their superiors attempted to cover it up, the Canadian government disbanded the entire Canadian Airborne
Me8e8 TIL the sun takes up over 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system.