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Surface Mount vs Through Hole Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors?

What are the differences between SMD and TH Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors? Why are TH variants available with such greater lifetimes? (For example, Digi-key has SMD aluminium caps up to 10k hours, ...
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