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TIL Pablo Picasso’s full name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

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YpyLW TIL that in a Himalayan village of Malana, in case of conflict between two people, two lambs are assigned to each party – making a deep cut in the foreleg to insert poison in the body. The party whose lamb dies earlier is believed to have lost the case.
7rWBM TIL that a San Francisco Highway Patrol Officer, called Kevin Briggs, has talked around 200 people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge since 1994.
QJlWk TIL even though Benjamin Franklin is credited with many popular inventions, he never patented or copyrighted any of them. He believed that they should be given freely and that claiming ownership would only cause trouble and “sour one’s Temper and disturb one’s Quiet.”
p8wA8 TIL German longjumper "Luz" Long gave Jesse Owens advice allowing him to win gold at 1936 Berlin Olympics. Long won silver. During the war, Long asked Jesse to tell his son "what times were like when we were not at war... how things can be between men on this earth", before being killed in 1943.
X0ZVr TIL about "Giant Mine" in NWT, Canada a mine that contains enough arsenic to kill every person on earth several times over. The arsenic has no half life so it will be just as deadly in 1,000,000 years. The government of Canada is currently trying to stop it from leaking into the environment.