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Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to descend in a submarine?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt once killed a Mountain Lion with a knife?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to leave the USA during his time in office?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “lunatic fringe?”

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt was the most serious reader of all American Presidents?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt nearly died while exploring a river in the Amazon basin in 1914?

Did You Know That the Bull Moose political party was named for Theodore Roosevelt?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to take an airplane ride?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt was so sickly as a child that his family’s doctors did not think he would live to be an adult?

Did You Know That the Teddy Bear is named for Theodore Roosevelt?

Did You Know That President Roosevelt’s children used to slide down the White House stairs on serving trays?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt is considered the greatest conservationist in Presidential history?

Did You Know That the reason Theodore Roosevelt became President was because the sitting President was assassinated?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt lived in western North Dakota off and on for approximately three years between 1883 and 1898?

Did You Know That Theodore Roosevelt went on a yearlong safari in Africa after he left the Presidency in 1909

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