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TIL: The San Francisco subway system still runs on 5 1/4-inch floppies

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GYO74 TIL about the world's oldest cured ham. It was overlooked on its hook at Gwaltney Foods in 1902 and hung from a rafter for twenty years. The company owner then declared it his pet ham, put a collar on it, and took it to exhibitions. It's now in a museum in Isle of Wight County, VA. It has a Twitter.
y418 TIL - In the U.K. up until 1875 boys as young as 8 were legally sold to a “master sweep” as an apprentice to sweep chimneys. Effectively slaves, after years of hard labour in harsh conditions led to disfigured appendages, poor vision, asthma and extremely high rate of scrotal cancer.
x6ak0 TIL about the Pact of Forgetting: a deal made between both the left and right wing of Spanish politics after the death of Fransisco Franco. It stated that neither side should directly confront the legacy of Francoist rule, in order to allow the country to move on during the transition to democracy.
W74nd Today I learned about the Girardoni air rifle; a rifle developed in 1779 that was capable of effectively shooting up to 125 meters with a muzzle velocity of 600 fps, it had a 20 round magazine and an internal air reservoir that was good for up to 30 shots before needing to be refilled.
9wYam TIL that bully sticks, a popular, healthy and safe chew for dogs, are literally dried bull penises.