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TIL: A South Carolina judge revoked the license of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a 6-foot-7 body so it would fit in a casket.

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5YOLn TIL that Pablo Picasso's full name has 23 words and 103 characters. His full name is 'Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso'
lokdB TIL Queen Victoria was buried in a white dress and her wedding veil, alongside many mementos. Her late husband's dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand was placed beside her, and a lock of her favourite servant John Brown's hair along with his photo was placed in her left hand.
b9vX0 TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a Pro-Black movement in 1985, killing 11 people, including 5 children. The only person to go to jail, was the only survivor.
wL0mW TIL Arthur Boycott, NOT the same namesake as the term "boycott", borrowed a library book that was not returned for 120 years when his granddaughter returned it
9YvjG TIL that when 'The Lonely Island' were shooting a scene involving the mugging of an old lady, passerby Keifer Sutherland assumed it was a real attack and tried to intervene.