What is the difference between truth and fact?

I believe truth and fact are the same "thing" existing two different ways. The two ways are not interchangable, but they almost always coexist.

Facts are specific, truth is universal.

A fact is a verifiable unit of infomation, truth is the meaning of that information. 

Facts are reductive, truth is transcendant. Facts are required to mean only what they mean, and little else. Truth is meaning in all contexts.

Some believe facts define the limitations of existence, that nothing more or less than the facts can be said to exist. Meaning is nice, when it's available, but the ideal truth may be so hidden, so difficult to perceive, that the existence of meaning in all things is simply not provable. 

Others believe truth exists with or without facts, that there are truths that cannot be realized without defying facts. According to that view, meaning does not have to exist in fact, meaning does not have to exist in all things.

Both of these accept, erroneously, the separation between truth and fact, between meaning and reason, that there are meaningless facts and unrealizable ideals.

But, of course, everything is meaningful.