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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J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!
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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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George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
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President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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