Oddly Satisfying Factoid of the Day: Gerald Ford’s last laugh edition

Via this piece on newspaper obituary practices in Slate, I learned that Gerald Ford outlived the writer of at least one of his obituaries by eleven months.

Now that’s commitment.

Image: John Everett Millais, “The Vale of Rest” 1858

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