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TIL Richard Nixon is the only person in US history to be elected Vice President twice and President twice.

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OoJmg TIL Walt Disney's father, Elias, was born in Canada, but didn’t find out that he wasn’t actually a confirmed citizen of the U.S.A. until much later. It was discovered that Elias Disney was still considered an alien so he went through the process to become a naturalized American citizen in his 70s
R7r57 TIL of Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for the story of a heroin-addicted four-year old. It was later discovered that the entire story was fabricated, and the award was rescinded.
w5V1 TIL Dr. Martin A. Couney saved thousands of infants by an unorthodox method of putting incubators of prematurely born babies on display. While technically being a carnival show on Coney Island, the treatment of babies was ethically sound and paid for itself. He made the incubator what it is today.
0VK1 TIL that the first episode of ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ featured Steve Irwin and his wife, Terry, trapping and handling crocodiles on their honeymoon.
k4QW Today I learned that publications in Israel have to disclose whether a fashion model was made to look thinner through photo manipulation