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• The Pledge of Allegence was authored by Socialist author and Baptist minister Francis Bellamy - without the "under God" phrase.
• Helen Keller was a socialist (but she did not write the pledge).
• The term "Michigander" was first coined by Abraham Lincoln as an insult.
• John Hanson, not George Washington, was the first President of the United States.
• Ronald Reagan: "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem."
• Members of the Reagan Administration criminally convicted: 21.
• Members of the Nixon Administration criminally convicted: 14.
• JFK: "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
• Members of the Kennedy Administration criminally convicted: 0.
• Members of the Carter Administration criminally convicted: 1.
• Members of the Clinton Administration criminally convicted: 1.
• The Nobel Prize in Economics was not established by Alfred Nobel, but by the bank that holds the endowment for the original five prizes (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace).
• The weight of Ronald Reagan's casket without his body: about 720 pounds, with body about 880.
• Appoximate weight carried per pall bearer up the 99 steps of the Capitol: 110 pounds.
• The Grand Old Party is younger than the Democratic Party.
• The name "Democratic Party" was initially used an an insult by the Federalists.
• M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a 0.543 mile until 1996, when it was de-commissioned, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station.
• Grand Teton means "Big Tits" in French.