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TIL That J.K. Simmons played an anti-communist U.S. President Howard T. Ackerman in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Parodying the 2008 Presidential election, he was in ads that had Ackerman as an alternative to the other candidates. He gained 43 votes as a write-in candidate.

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