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TIL: USSR used nuclear bomb to stop gas well blowout in Uzbekistan

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wrM8 TIL due to having no tools, an Inuit man once shat in his hand, shaped it into a knife as it froze, then used it to kill and skin a dog and make a sled out of its bones. He then strapped another dog to the sled so he could travel through a blizzard.
x6Krb TIL you can go to the island of Sicily via a "boat-train", the last remaining passenger train ferry in Europe. It is a 25-minute ride across the Straits of Messina, the service started in 1899.
rPrd TIL the producers of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest asked local car salesman Mel Lambert to help them find grotesque-looking locals to play extras. Lambert placed an ad asking “Do You Have a Face That Scares Timberwolves?” Despite subsequent editorials protesting the insult, the ad was a success.
lKG1 TIL that Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
BrQNd TIL The word ‘orange’ was used as the name of the fruit for around 200 years before being used as a colour.