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TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age

1aKZ4 TIL that a photosensitive drum, charged by a corona wire, inside a photocopier machine, carries an electrical shadow of the letters to be copied towards the toner, where the toner particles stick to the shadow and then transfered to white blank paper.
j6M1a TIL an alchemist from the Tang dynasty was searching for an immortality potion and ended up discovering gun powder, which would do the opposite of the sought after potion.
j6QgX TIL about “vicarious embarrassment” which explains extreme reactions to cringe comedy. For me, it can get so bad as to become physically painful
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.
wL4Q7 TIL that Axl Rose's (Singer for Guns'n'Roses) first studio recorded song in over 10 years was for the 'New Looney Tunes' show.