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Herbert Hoover Birthplace Cottage

West Branch, IA

The future president was born in this tiny two-room cottage in 1874. Its extreme simplicity contrasts sharply with Hoover's later global career and makes the preserved house a compact historical oddity.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/heho/

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