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Winston Churchill, a notorious drinker, circumvented prohibition while visiting the U.S. by obtaining a letter from his doctor prescribing alcohol for treatment following a vehicular accident.

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Winston Churchill is the first person ever to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

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Churchill smoked eight to ten cigars a day, sometimes as much as fifteen.

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Winston Churchill was 5’6″ (1.68 m) tall.

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Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt were all cousins through one connection or another. (FDR and Eleanor were about five times removed.)

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Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, “Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father’s political footsteps.”

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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

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