When not in Washington D.C., President Franklin D. Roosevelt would stay in Warm Springs, Georgia. Often living in a modest home nicknamed the Little White House. FDR would later pass away there in 1945.
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Fun Fact: What Jimmy Carter Did To His Sister as Kids
As kids, Jimmy Carter’s sister threw a wrench at him, he later shot her in the behind with a BB gun
Fun Fact: First Female Senator
Rebecca Felton of Georgia served as the country’s first female senator. She was appointed in a honorary act (her husband had a career in politics) and only served for one day, as such. Unfortunately, Rebecca Felton was a terrible person. She had owned slavers prior to the civil war, and was incredibly racist to theContinue reading “Fun Fact: First Female Senator”
Fun Fact: When Coca-Cola Was Used as a Medicine
Coca-Cola was originally intended to be used as a medicine. Its inventor John Pemberton was addicted to morphine after being wounded during the U.S. Civil War and he wanted something else to use in its place.
Fun Fact: Georgia Peach
Georgia calls itself the Peach State due to its history of peach production that goes back to 1571. Though today, it is behind both California and South Carolina in production.
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