Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Pablo Neruda once ran for president of Chile on the Communist Party's ticket. (Source.)
As a boy, Neruda's poetry teacher was Chile's other Nobel Prize-winner, Gabriela Mistral. (Source.)
Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, and changed his name at age sixteen to honor the Czechoslovakian poet Jan Neruda. (Source.)