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TIL the original ‘Teddy Bear’ was inspired by a cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt sparing a wounded bear while on a hunting trip. Based on this success, in the next election, William Taft supporters tried and failed to popularize a stuffed possum associated with their candidate.

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