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Taylor Swift and Robert F. Kennedy were never alive at the same time. And yet, the singer revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in 2012 that while she was dating Conor Kennedy, she saw a photo of RFK with his wife, Ethel Kennedy, that inspired her to write a song.

"There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a [black person] can achieve the same position that my brother has," former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said in 1961. And boy, was his prediction on the money: Just a little more than 40 years later—47 years later, to be precise—Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States of America.