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“Real Facts” List
# | Real Fact |
1133 | Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms. |
1134 | Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment. |
1135 | John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest. |
1136 | James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president. |
1137 | Eight presidents have died while in office. |
1138 | Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III, but took his stepfather’s last name when his mother remarried. |
1139 | Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second highest number of electoral votes was vice president. |
1140 | George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery. |
1141 | Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare’s chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786. |
1142 | George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president. |
1143 | George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory. |
1144 | George Washington protected his beloved horses from losing their teeth by making sure they were brushed regularly. |
1145 | John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River. |
1146 | Calvin Coolidge was so shy, he was nicknamed “Silent Cal.” |
1147 | Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse. |
1148 | President Herbert Hoover invented “Hooverball” (a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball), which he played with his cabinet members. |
1149 | Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel. |
1150 | Martin Van Buren’s nickname was “Old Kinderhook” because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y. |
1151 | James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania. |
1152 | Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once in about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as “Outstanding American.” |
1153 | In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor. |
1154 | Ulysses S. Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day; citizens sent him at least 10,000 boxes in gratitude after winning the Battle of Shiloh. |
1155 | Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time. |
1156 | Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House; however, he was so scared of getting electrocuted, he’d never touch the light switches himself. |
1157 | William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm. |
1158 | Herbert Hoover’s son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House. |
1159 | Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.” |
1160 | In 1940, the University of California bestowed Ronald Reagon with the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award. |
1161 | Bill Clinton’s face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models. |
1162 | In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. |
1163 | Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office. |
1164 | Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency. |
1165 | James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election. |
1166 | There are only three requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years. |
1167 | To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds. |
1168 | Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember – simply “1.” |
1169 | Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British. |
1170 | Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot Poll was removed from his funeral for cursing. |
1171 | Teddy bears get their name from President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, who once refused to shoot a black bear. |
1172 | There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S. |
1173 | Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender. |
1174 | Barack Obama is called the 44th president, but is actually the 43rd because Grover Cleveland is counted twice, as he was elected for two terms. |
1175 | Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election. |
1176 | President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to speak privately to each other. |
1177 | November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather. |
1178 | Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties (10%). |
1179 | William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office. |
1180 | John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra. |
1181 | James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived him and his wife. |
1182 | John Quincy Adams’ wife raised silkworms. |
1183 | Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president. |
1184 | William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House. |
1185 | Franklin Pierce was gifted two small “sleeve dogs” – he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis. |
1186 | Abraham Lincoln’s son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn’t killed and eaten. |
1187 | James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto. |
1188 | William Taft liked milk so much that he had cows graze on the White House lawn, Pauline being the last in history to graze there. |
1189 | Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon. |
1190 | John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni. |
1191 | Lyndon Johnson had two beagles, named Him and Her, for which he was criticized for picking up by their ears. |
1192 | Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy. |
1193 | Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website. |
1194 | Woodrow Wilson passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also has a PhD. |
1195 | President Zachary Taylor’s nickname was “Old Rough and Ready” because of his famed war career. |
1196 | Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400-pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President’s Reception. |
1197 | Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration in 1981. |
1198 | Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president. |
1199 | Lyndon Johnson’s family all had the initials LBJ. |
1200 | Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get sick. |
1201 | Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan. |
1202 | Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II. |
1203 | Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital. |
1204 | Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health. |
1205 | A portion of Grover Cleveland’s jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber. |
1206 | Russia and the United States are less than three miles apart. |
1207 | John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826. |
1208 | Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido was the first “First Dog” to be photographed. |
1209 | President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau. |
1210 | President Rutherford B. Hayes’ cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S. |
1211 | President John Quincy Adams’ pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom. |
1212 | First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, “If you love me…you must love my dog.” |
1213 | John Adams’ pets Satan and Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House. |
1214 | Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House. |
1215 | More presidents have had pet birds than cats. |
1216 | Thomas Jefferson’s pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth. |
1217 | Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations. |
1218 | Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train. |
1219 | Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public. |
1220 | First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp. |