President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!
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J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
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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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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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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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In 2005, the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” and it was made of smoked reindeer.
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