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TIL in Asia, honeybees smear their hive entrances with animal poop to ward off Murder Hornets. One of the few observable times insects have used tools.

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4Xk6g TIL Kurt Cobain wanted to name Nirvana's final album "I Hate Myself And Want To Die" but didn't because bassist Krist Novoselic convinced him that the band might end up with lawsuits if Cobain stuck with the original title
VBwx8 TIL the song "One", popularized by Three Dog Night, was written by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. The "beep, beep, beep" tone of the busy signal became the opening notes of the song.
LejP TIL that Ernest Hemingway was a fantastic cook famed for his pan-fried hamburgers and bacon wrapped trout.
oBkNA TIL about Lakshmi Tatma, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs. Named after a Hindu goddess often depicted as four-armed, the girl became worshipped, and a circus offered to buy her. After a 27-hour surgery done by thirty surgeons, done for free, Lakshmi's extra limbs were removed.
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.