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TIL: During World War 1, Canadian Soldiers Cunningly Exploited Germans' Trust by Offering Tins of Corned Beef, Only to Later Toss Grenades into Their Trenches

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neEoP TIL that Robert De Niro Sr. was an abstract expressionist painter whose work was shown in 1945 at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century in New York; a leading gallery for emerging abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock.
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