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• [President fact 1]  John F. Kennedy was the first and only Catholic President of the United States. Almost all of the other presidents were either Protestant, Nontrinitarian, or Unspecified.

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• [President fact 2]  71% of Americans are "fairly certain" that Alexander Hamilton is among their nation's past presidents. This confidence in Hamilton having been president is higher than for six actual presidents.

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• [President fact 3]  When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik into space in 1957, the event created such a profound public shock in the US that, in less than a year, Congress had increased education funding six-fold and Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act creating NASA.

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• [President fact 4]  The Prime Minister of India's salary is only $2,400 USD

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• [President fact 5]  Woodrow Wilson, the President of the US during WWI, was known to be a white supremacist and who was responsible for revitalizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1915

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• [President fact 6]  In 1987, Thomas Sankara (then president of Burkina Faso) was killed in a coup held by Blaise Compaoré. Ten years earlier, they were in a band together called 'Tout-à-Coup Jazz'.

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• [President fact 7]  2 days before Christmas 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a visit to Pope Paul VI where they exchanged unique gifts. While LBJ received a stunning 15th-century painting from Pope Paul VI, the pope himself received a foot-high, bronze bust of Johnson's head.

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• [President fact 8]  In 2002, Sega's president, Shiochiro Irimajiri, gifted all of the $695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast. He died shortly afterwards following an arduous battle with cancer.

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• [President fact 9]  President Boris Yeltsin once on his visit to Ireland got so drunk on the airplane that it had to circle for an hour over the airport and when it finally landed Yeltsin would not come out of the plane to meet the Irish delegation.

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• [President fact 10]  George Washington was worth $525 million in his day (adjusted for inflation).

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