Politics Facts

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both had their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

The United States does not have an official language.

Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.

In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city in recognition of his donations to local Chaldean Christian churches.

John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!

No president of the United States was an only child.

In the UK Parliament, the Speaker of the House is forbidden from participating in debates or expressing political opinions, maintaining strict neutrality despite presiding over all discussions.

On 2nd Nov 2017, President Trump's Twitter account was deactivated for 11 minutes by a departing Twitter employee.

North Korea holds elections every 5 years - and there's only 1 name on the ballot.

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.

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.

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.

In 1998, the town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, population 315, elected a dog named Goofy as mayor as a fundraiser joke. It worked so well they kept doing it. Every mayor since has been a dog. They have collectively raised over $100,000 for the town. No human has run for mayor since 1998.

The senator had shut down every witness all morning. Fred Rogers had 6 minutes to save $20 million in PBS funding. No charts. No statistics. No prepared speech. He sat down and read a children's song about managing anger to a room full of politicians who wanted to go home. The senator went quiet. Then he said: "Looks like you just earned the $20 million."

Stubbs the cat served as honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for more than 20 years. The role was ceremonial - the town has no real government. But that didn't stop up to 40 tourists a day from coming just to meet him. Each afternoon he walked next door for catnip water served in a margarita glass. He died in July 2017 at age 20, still in office.