President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
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George W. Bush was also the head of the cheerleading team in his high school.
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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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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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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