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TIL that artificial intelligence can distinguish authentic Pollock's paintings from fake ones with 93% accuracy.

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BrPLx TIL that the movie Serpico was filmed in reverse, and Al Pacino had to be shaved as the shooting progressed. Pacino started with long beard and hair. He was shaved to a mustache, and then eventually his hair was cut, and he was clean-shaven for the beginning of the film.
LkavZ TIL: There are Asian (Thai) who fought in US Civil War, participated and survived in many major battle, and became the first Asian to received US pension.
omeK TIL that there is a galaxy being deathray-ed by its own supermassive black hole.
6yW7 TIL in 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit suburb. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The attack was motivated by U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, although Chin was Chinese. They served no jail time.
LQxav TIL Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists. Today it is used to describe those who uphold the legacies of leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.