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TIL the FBI tried to intimidate the publishers of MAD magazine for making fun of the FBI and Hoover

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grlmA TIL that from 1860-1920, Ohioans headed the Presidential ticket on nine occasions and won all but two times, with Woodrow Wilson defeating them twice.
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oBEbK TIL that on the last day of his presidency, President Andrew Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun."