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TIL Pablo Picasso full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

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JYWa4 TIL that Donald Duck has a middle name. His full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck. He was the friend-rival of Mickey Mouse.
ArR4 TIL that Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo was inspired by a real event, wherein an automaton donated to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute was restored to find that it could draw elaborate Illustrations and write poems.
XEm4j TIL In 1920, a comedian called Harold Lloyd lost two fingers after picking up what he assumed to be a lit prop bomb at a photo shoot, that turned out to be a real bomb. It took 8 months to recover, and for the rest of his career, he had to wear a prosthetic.
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rXKd TIL American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350k followers.