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TIL North Korea has 1 of the biggest art factories, which makes both state propaganda, and colossal monuments that many countries have bought eg, Senegal’s African Renaissance Monument, in Dakar, 164 feet tall, taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Cristo Redentor

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xnL5 TIL Ho Chi Minh worked at a pub in West London in 1914
GYRVg Art and space collide for a post-impressionist view of Jupiter. Using data from #JunoCam, an artist processes an abstract look at Jupiter’s unique atmosphere.
Z8wxR TIL FBI sent a letter to MLK trying to convince him to commit suicide.
Ebd7 TIL that Alabama governor George Wallace, known for his pro-segregation stance which he later recanted, appointed more black members to state positions during his final term than any other governor in the state to this day.
Aya7 TIL Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “La Lecture” depicts Picasso’s mistress asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.