J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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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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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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