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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.
p80k8 TIL a Revolutionary-era wooden ship was found on the site of the World Trade Center during excavations after 9/11
J1MLj TIL about Cornelius Cole (1822-1924), a U.S. Senator who was alive at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson (d. 1826) and Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
Qw9d TIL that when John Cougar was told he had to lip sync for a TV performance he and his band protested by appearing on stage with the wrong instruments
9Yx7D TIL a book claiming "Koreans have less morals than the beasts and birds" sold over 470,000 copies in Japan and became the best-selling non-fiction title in 2017.