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TIL The median age for a Fox News viewer is 65 years old

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a8xBL TIL that Thomas Dewey was so widely expected to win the 1948 Election against President Harry Truman that James Maloney, the Head of Secret Service, dispatched most of Truman's Secret Service detail to New York to prepare to guard Dewey. A few weeks after Truman won re-election, he dismissed Maloney
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