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Calvin Coolidge’s Family Kept Their Pet “William Johnson Hippopotamus” At The National Zoo

This month in 1927, Americans were fawning over an animal headed to the National Zoo in Washington: a presidential hippo named Billy.

A Lawmaker Tried To Get Americans To Eat Hippo Meat, AKA “Lake Bacon”

About this time in 1910, a member of Congress thought the next big food trend would be hippo meat.