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Fun facts from past presidential inaugurations

(via CNN) Sometimes presidential inaugurations are full of pomp and circumstance. Sometimes they end with the newly sworn-in president jumping

(via Atlas Obscura) The 1948 presidential campaign, which would later result in one of the most famously wrong newspaper headlines

(via Atlas Obscura) Since the 19th century, presidential campaigns have produced posters, buttons, banners, and slogans to promote their candidate,

(via National Geographic) Americans have been interested in political hair ever since George Washington came on the scene in 1789.

(via The Washingtonian) Every morning, John Hinckley Jr. leaves his room inside St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital and goes outside at

(via Atlas Obscura) Don’t worry, no one gets the nuclear codes until AFTER the election… maybe. In July, after each

Come this time next year there will be a new president in the White House. Whoever that person ends up

Looking like a Presidential version of Easter Island, there’s a field in Croker, Virgina with an interesting story. The busts