Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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Kim Jong-il is only 5' 2'' tall. He wears four-inch lifts in his shoes to compensate for his short stature.
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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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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 was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!
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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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J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
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