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TIL that former US President Lyndon B Johnson wanted to have a jet installed in White House so that water would constantly shoot onto his penis.When told it would be incovenient, he invoked Vietnam War - "If I can move 10,000 troops in a day, you can certainly fix the bathroom any way I want it"

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