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TIL Jimmy Carter is the only living president to have won Texas as a democrat

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l7EW7 TIL Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55) was one of the first science fiction TV shows and had a run of 1537 episodes. Only about 20 of the episodes survive today as as the original recordings were dumped in the ocean off the coast of New York.
EgV8o TIL in 2003 Phil Donahue was fired from MSNBC for being too liberal
grAPD TIL in 1964, Japan awarded the First‐Class Order of Merit of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, one of its highest decorations, to Curtis LeMay, the General who had directed the fire bombing of Japan's cities which caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
GYAMj TIL more Mexicans leaving than coming to the U.S.
17WV TIL you shouldn’t breathe on your lens to clean it, your breath contains harmful acids that could damage the lens coating. (x-post from Photography)