- Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836.
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- George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
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- James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
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- The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon.
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- William Taft who was the U.S. president between 1909-1913 once got stuck in the White House bathtub.
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- U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only man to receive the "Time's Man of the Year" award three times. He received it in the years 1932, 1934, and 1941.
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- American President John Tyler had 15 children.
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- The first president to ride in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt.
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- Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government.
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- The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
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- George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.
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- The heaviest United States President was William Howard Taft who weighed 332 pounds.
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- In his youth, United States president George W. Bush used to play for the Midland (Texas) Central Little League. He played the position of the catcher.
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- Half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent.
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- In 1907, at the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,150 people on New Year's Day.
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- American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) used to like Vaseline being rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed.
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- The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.
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- Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives.
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- Thomas Jefferson had three achievements placed on his headstone at his request, "Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson/Author Of The Declaration Of American Independence/Of The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom/And Father Of The University of Virginia.? He never mentioned being President of the United States.
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- The first president to have a picture taken was John Quincy Adams.
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- U.S. President Harry Truman's middle name was just the letter "S."
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- At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there.
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- The 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was able to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
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