Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time.

Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse.

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