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TIL Hubert Blaine held the world record for the longest personal name ever used. His full name is made up of 26 names followed by a 988 letter surname. There is debate over the correct spelling.

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6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
Rl5Q TIL Fidel Castro set up his own recreation of the Kennedy assassination using Cuban military snipers and concluded Oswald couldn’t have acted alone.
we0W TIL that some researchers in Antarctica grow marijuana there
aOrL TIL Sheep breeders put chalk on the male sheep, which leaves a chalk mark on the females it’s mated with to monitor reproduction.
0ba1 TIL: there is a pub in Ireland that has been in operation for over 1000 years.