Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
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There was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
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President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
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John F. Kennedy ordered over 1,000 Cuban cigars for personal use just hours before he made them illegal.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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Sales of the Guy Fawkes mask - used by protesters all over the world as a symbol of their fight against government corruption and corporate power - all go to Time Warner.
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Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!
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