No president of the United States was an only child.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
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The system of democracy was introduced 2,500 years ago in Athens, Greece.
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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