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William Howard Taft was the last…

November 9, 2022November 9, 2022Weirdo

William Howard Taft was the last president elected that had a mustache. No president since then has had a mustache because research does show that women feel a guy with facial hair seems less attuned to their issues.

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Eugene Debs, aka Convict No. 9653…

November 9, 2022Weirdo

Eugene Debs, aka Convict No. 9653, was the only candidate to ever run for US president…from prison! Debs, imprisoned under the Espionage Act for his antiwar agitation during WWI, won nearly 1M votes in the 1920 election as a candidate for the Socialist Party.

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President Ulysses S. Grant was nearly…

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022Weirdo

President Ulysses S. Grant was nearly bankrupted by a Ponzi scheme a year before his death, and was saved from near-destitution by partnering with Mark Twain on his memoirs

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George H.W. Bush was obsessive…

November 16, 2021Weirdo

George H.W. Bush was obsessive about his hatred of broccoli, he mentioned it 70 times during his presidency, banned it from the White House, and blamed the extinction of the dinosaurs on it.

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In 1981 President Ronald Reagan…

August 9, 2021Weirdo

In 1981 President Ronald Reagan fired the entire air traffic controllers union, invoking a law that stated government employees that engaged in a strike forfeited their jobs.

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Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president…

August 2, 2021Weirdo

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself.

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During the Cold War, the USA tried to intimidate…

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021Weirdo

During the Cold War, the USA tried to intimidate the Soviet Bloc by convincing them that then president Richard Nixon was an unstable lunatic who was likely to lash out for no rational reason, based on the dubious “madman theory” of foreign policy.

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Before becoming the first president of Vietnam…

December 13, 2020December 13, 2020Weirdo

Before becoming the first president of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh spent years travelling the world. He once worked as a cook in a hotel in Boston.

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In 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law banning…

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020Weirdo

In 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law banning citizens from making jokes about the surname of the President, Canaan Banana.

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In the 1870s, an 11 time Mexican President…

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020Weirdo

In the 1870s, an 11 time Mexican President exiled to Staten Island, partnered with New Jersey inventor to sell gum to fund an army to return to power once more. After he gave up and returned to Mexico, his partner went on to create what we know as chewing gum sticks today.

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