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TIL Victorian upper class society ate ice cream and ices with a specialized fork (that was definitely a spork)

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8mRa TIL: In an effort to fight oil well fires, Hungarian engineers recycled a Russian T-34 tank, and replaced the gun turret with two Mig-21 jet engines. The team would inject water into the exhaust of the engines and literally blow an oil well fire out. They called the device Big Wind.
wLvKY TIL that Sam, a chimpanzee friend of Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles had a testicle bitten off by a celebrity dog on a film they were working on together.
BrjxD TIL in 35th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2010 was The Condor Cluster built by the US Air Force from over 1700 PS3s linked together running Linux
v11ZK TIL Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to be dragged behind horses until dead. Then their genitals cut off and burnt before their eyes before their dead bodies were decapitated
b6v77 TIL: A painting of Bea Arthur Naked sold for $1.9m