Would you like a badger?

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TIL that while in Sharon Springs, Theodore Roosevelt was approached by a 12-year-old girl who asked if he would like to have a badger. Expecting to humor her. he agreed, and the girl came back with a 2-week-old badger President Roosevelt named him Josiah and he became one of the presidential pets.
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