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TIL Pablo Picasso made his first painting at age 8, a tiny oil on wood scene of a yellow-clad bullfighter in the ring, a subject he would revisit throughout his life

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5YmQP TIL the copyright for Peter Pan is incredibly complicated. Which includes competing laws from the U.K. and the EU; where the U.K. says a children’s hospital owns the rights for forever and the EU saying it’s already public domain.
LwgP TIL that internet providers use megabits per second (Mbps) to measure download speed, which is 1/8th the size of a megabyte (MBps), despite files being measured in bytes
gpvW TIL of the Toynbee Tiles, cryptic messages placed in asphalt on roads in about two dozen major cities in the United States and South America. They started appearing the 1980s and while there have been different suspects no one has been clearly identified as the creator of them
E4pw TIL during AOL’s prime, the CEO called broadband a “side issue” and said “narrowband is going to be around forever”.
K80w TIL Jason Voorhees has been unmasked and featured a different looking face in nearly every Friday the 13th film