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TIL That microfiche can last more than 500 years
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TIL that after Truman’s presidency ended, his only income was a $112.56 monthly army pension. In response, congress passed the Former Presidents Act offering former presidents a $25,000 yearly pension.
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TIL former US president Gerald Ford, his wife Betty Ford, and politician Henry Kissinger all made guest appearances as themselves in a 1983 episode of night-time soap Dynasty
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TIL that ‘jazz’ is the hardest word to guess in a game of Hangman.
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TIL that the first succesful production to ever mix sound, color and motion on screen was an eight hour religious film called The Photo-Drama of Creation made by Jehovah's whitnesses.
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TIL that an alternative name for the giraffe is "cameleopard", which comes from the Greek "kamēlopárdalis".