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ADkRx TIL Thomas Jefferson thought the constitution should be rewritten every 20 years.
p50N TIL That despite voting for prohibition as a U.S. Senator, President Warren G. Harding kept a fully stocked bar of alcohol in the White House during his administration in the 1920’s.
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