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TIL that 98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men

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lorJN TIL about Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system. She was also an important early figure in the foundation of the YWCA, and raised funds for needy soldiers during WWI.
m1XDY TIL DST was conceptualized by Ben Franklin in a satire piece about saving money on candles, proposed in the 1890's by and entomologist wanting more daylight to bug-hunt, implimented in WWI as an energy saving measure, and is now used to provide workers with more daylight.
xkZo TIL: South African prison gangs use HIV infection as punishment, ordering gang members carrying the AIDS virus to rape disobedient inmates in a ritual known as “slow puncture”.
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.
xV6yw TIL Buddy from Air Bud died of cancer just one year after filming the movie. He died in 1998 at the age of 10.