Did you know President-elect Joe Biden ran for the US presidency twice? Biden, 77, will be the oldest to swear-in as the US President in January next year while Kamala Harris, 56, will be the first woman, first Black, and first Indian-American person to swear in as the Vice President.

On November 7, Biden, by several media houses, was declared as the winner of US elections, where the 77-year-old Democrat had challenged the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. 

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As Biden and Harris will take oath as the 46th President and Vice President of the United States, let’s look at some of the unknown facts about them:

1. Biden, who has served as the vice president to the former president Barack Obama, had first run for president in 1988 and again in 2008.

2. Biden has two dogs, named Champ and Major, who will enter the White House in January and becomes the first Dogs of the US. 

3. Biden’s first wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Amy were killed in a road accident in 1972. The 77-year-old has also lost his son Beau Biden, who was an Iraq war veteran, in 2015. 

4. Joe Biden stuttered as a child

5. Biden loves ice cream. “My name is Joe Biden and I love ice cream. I don’t drink. I don’t smoke but I eat a lot of ice cream,” the President-elect has said. 

6. Harris ran for Attorney General of California in 2010 and after winning the election, she became the first state’s woman, first African-American, and first Indian-American woman to hold the post.

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7. Kamala’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan hails from Tamil Nadu, India and she came to the US in 1958 to attend the University of California at Berkeley.

8. Harris grew up attending a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.