No shit, Sherlock: We got braynz

29.08.2012 07:20 UTC+02:00
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image of an ice pick, the title reads “In Cold Blood”, the caption reads “The ice pick used to kill Trotsky was the mountaineeering tool, also known as an ice axe; Mercader had shortened the handle in order to smuggle it into the household; Trotsky's heart and brain were removed and his brain weighed. His brain proved unusually heavy” According to the BBC, after his assassination Leon Trotsky's brain proved unusually heavy.

Well, duh! It had an ice axe embedded in it. Innit?

The mountaineering tool shown in the BBC's photograph is an ice axe, it's not also known as an ice pick. The pointed or toothed part of the head is called the pick, but an ice pick is an altogether different implement. Hence this post is tagged accordingly, as is this footnote.