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PY5mO TIL that Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
J1b6Q TIL Max Payne was originally named Max Heat and 3D Realms spent over $20,000 trademarking the name before someone at the company suggested Max Payne, which was immediately adopted.
8aD8 TIL that once Truman left the presidency, his only income was his old army pension - $112.56 per month. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency.”
16K8V TIL that in Victorian England, post-mortem photography was a common way to memorialise loved ones - dead children were often posed to look alive, with painted-on eyes or blushed cheeks, and families would gather for their first and only portrait with the deceased.