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Bizarre Fact #91:
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George Washington's face was badly scarred from smallpox. Bizarre Fact #92:
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Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Bizarre Fact #93:
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Grace Bedell, age 11, wrote Abe Lincoln with a suggestion. She urged Lincoln to grow a beard. If he did, she'd try to get her four brothers to vote for him as president. Lincoln won the election in November - then grew a beard. Bizarre Fact #94:
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Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life. Bizarre Fact #95:
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Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally. Bizarre Fact #96:
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Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals. Bizarre Fact #97:
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Herman Melville shipped aboard the whaler "Acushnet," at age 21. He later wrote a book from the experience. Bizarre Fact #98:
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Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared. Bizarre Fact #99:
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Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA. Bizarre Fact #100:
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Howard Hughes' original fortune came from his father's invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.
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