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TIL the famous robocop posters was a painting and not a photograph

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W7xMY TIL in 2015 Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with brain cancer - In 2019 he broke his hip at age 95 - During that same year he fell at home requiring 14 stitches - Despite his injuries he showed up the next day to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity - At age 98 he still remained an active volunteer
woVZ6 TIL Jack Benny's last staring role in a film was in The Horn Blows at Midnight, which was a box office bomb. The film would go on to gain a new life as a punchline on The Jack Benny Program where it was the butt of jokes for over 20 years.
x60jw TIL the term for a female cat is a "queen". How fitting.
v1P1D TIL that Ivanpah, a solar electric generating system inadvertently created a solar death ray and has killed a lot of birds.
6EME7 TIL Ireland is the only Western European democracy to have signed a condolence book and visit the German ambassador following Hitler's death in 1945