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TIL Before Becoming President, Franklin Roosevelt Was Rebuked By Congress For Overseeing the Creation of a Gay Teenage Prostitution Ring in the Navy. It didn’t hurt his Presidential Run Because Press Thought it Was Too Indecent to Report.

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