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TIL that, in 1844, while dignitaries were visiting the USS Princeton, a gun exploded, killing the Secretaries of State and Defense. President Tyler was belowdecks. Afterwards, he carries away the fainted daughter of one of the dead dignitaries. He marries her a few months later, making her First Lad

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