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George Washington was a commander during the revolutionary war.Abraham Lincoln was great.Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio.John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic President.Richard Nixon resigning office.Bill Clinton Aimé Fast Restoration. AndJoe Bidenhad a childhood stutter. These are just some of the facts onUS presidents that you probably have heard before. For every nugget of presidential history that you have already extracted, there is a knit of trivish-tidbits waiting to be discovered. After all, the presidents are not just the most powerful leaders in America; As it turns out, they are also some of its most interesting characters. In honor of the day of the presidents, here are 30 fascinating facts that you probably have never known American presidents. And expand your knowledge of the most powerful position of our nation, see theseFacts about the presidential estate you need to know now.

George H.W. Bush was famous for his pragmatism. Because it was such a prudent personality, it could surprise that the Bush also had an adventurous side - and nowhere where it was more obvious than in its penchant for skydiving. As a young man, Bush served in the Second World War as a hunting pilot. In 1944, he was shot down and had to parachue himself. After this experience, Bush promised a day to a day of a plane to have fun. He finallythe fact In 1997, at the age of 72, then again on its 75th, 80th 85th and 90th anniversaries. At the time of his death in 2018, Bush had made a total ofEight parachute jumps.

Bill Clinton has more common withBeyonce,Eminem,Lady Gaga, andBillie AILISHthat you might think. The 42nd President of the United States hasnot just a Grammy price, he has two. Although Clinton is a talented saxophone player - one of the most memorable moments of his first presidential campaign was his1992 Performance onThe show of the Arsenio room-He did not win in a category of music. Rather, it won in 2003 for the best word album for children to tellWolf slopes, a retention ofPeter and the wolfand in 2004 in the same category for the audiobook ofMy life, his autobiography. Two other presidents, it should be noted that Grammy Awards also won the Grammy Awards for the Best Album of Word Spoken: Barack Obama is a winner twice and Jimmy Carter is a winner of three times.

Before he is president,George W. Bush Was a cheerleader, a brother Fraternity, an Oilman, an owner of a professional baseball team and a governor. Not exactly the profile you expect from a grass artist. Nevertheless, an artist became exactly what Bush became. After leaving the office in 2009, Bush learned to paint. Although he initially kept his new hobby a secret, he now engages her openly in the hope that others will be inspired in the same way to try new things. In 2017, he even publishedPortraits of courage, a portraits book he painted representing American veterans.

The love of Barack Obama for the hoops iswell-documented. After taking office in 2009, the commander-in-chief had changed the tennis court of the White House so that it can be used for tennis or basketball. And he used it for legendarypickup games With not only friends and staff members, but also political allies and adversaries, including members of his cabinet. But what you may not know is that Obama's passion for basketball goes back to his youth. Yes, "Barry" Obama played on his high school team with a group of friends who called "rams" and who gave Obama the nickname "Barry O'Bomber"Due to long-term jumping, he liked to take.

The presidents must shake a lot of hands. He comes with the territory. But the current president avoids every time he can. In reality,He has already called it "barbarian" customized. It's becauseDonald Trumpis a self-describedgermaphobe. Trump ishing his hands "as many times as possible" during the day, asks people to leave the room if they touch at a meeting,drinks of a straw Instead of straight a glass to avoid contamination and requires personal help to transport a hand disinfectant at any time so that the president can use it before meals or between reluctant hand hands. And for more information on the health concerns of the leaders of our country,These American presidents also fought serious diseases in the office.

As a growing child in Scranton, Pennsylvania, our last president Joe Biden was intimidated tirelessly for what he called "debilitating" stutter. "I can not think of nothing else who has already stripped me of my dignity as quickly and deeply and so thoroughly than whenI stammered in the grade school, "said in a speech from 2008 at the American Institute of Stutter, theLos Angles Times reported in 2019.

What helped him become a speaker without stuttering, he is today? Poetry of course. It was the act of recitation of the poems ofWilliam Butler Yeats In front of a mirror that taught him to control the problem he has been chosen for. It has become president of the United States and can always recite long passages of Irish poetry from memory to start. Biden: 1. Bullets: 0 and some recent Covid news directly from the White House,President Biden just gave this update dark Covid.

George Washington's Lionized Locks are universally recognized through its place on the dollar invoice. What is much less common knowledge, however, is that they were neither fake nor white, as they seem to be in portraits. Although it is true that the wigs were popular in Washington's Day, the first President of America preferred hisnatural hairHe kept long and bore attached to a ponytail. Because he always wanted to appear in fashion, however, Washington - a redhead powder his hair in order to adapt to the white wigs of contemporaries.

It was the second president of America,John Adams, who was the first to call theWhite House residence. Adams moved in1600 Pennsylvania Ave On November 1, 1800, which was the last year of his first and only term. Before that, he loves George Washington before living "President's house, "A three-story brick mansion in Philadelphia.

Here's something else you probably did not know John Adams: he died on theOn the four of July. And he was not the only commander-in-chief to do it. In fact, three of the five founding fathers of the Nation - Adams,Thomas Jefferson, andJames Monroe-DIED ONThe day of independence. Adams and Jefferson even adopted the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Monroe died five years later, July 4, 1831.

Thomas Jefferson was a real man of the Renaissance. He was not just a politician, but also a diplomat, a farmer, a musician, a scholar and an architect. And he was also an influential chair designer. His biggest contribution? TheArmchair Revolving Windsor-Aso known as a swivel chair. Although Jefferson's original chair was built by someone else, it modified it by placing an iron brooch between the upper and lower half, which allowed the chair to rotate on casters borrowed from Windows with rope. He used the chair by writing the declaration of independence.

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Although it is often credited to do it, a Thomas Jefferson thingnotinvent, according toVice, was ice cream. However, he contributed to importing it to the United States. Jefferson discovered frozen treats, the story goes, while he was a diplomat in France. He was hooked. When he returned to America, he brought with him molds and utensils specially designed for icemaking. As president, he then served as the ice cream regularly at the White House, which allowed the popularization of frozen making between the American masses. Jefferson even left behind a handwrittenIce cream recipe-Ex yellow eggs, half a sugar book, two bottles of cream and a bean of vanilla - which is the first known ice cream recipe recorded by an American.

At 6 feet 4 inches tall, Abraham Lincoln andLyndon B. Johnson were the highest presidents of America. But what about the shortest President of America? This distinction will to found the fatherJames Madison, who has5 feet 4 inches tall, was a complete footing shorter than his toughest peers.

WhatJames Madisonlacked stature, he compared into the intellect. One of the three authors behind the famous federalist documents, he attended the University of Princeton, then known as College of New Jersey - as the first cycle in 1769. He graduated four years in just two years, graduated in 1771. Because he was not sure what he wanted to make of his life, however, Madison received permission to stay in Princeton for a year of "graduate work. "Under the leadership of the President of the School,John WitherspoonHe continued his studies he devoted to the subject of Hebrew.

Although, subsequently, he then allowed other high-performance scholars to continue to study after receiving a bachelor's degree, Princeton did not formal his graduate program before 1869 - a complete century after Madison went to college.

No doubt, some of the most interesting occupants of the White House are not the presidents themselves, but their pets - some of whom have been outright. If the tradition is true, one of the strangest is probably theAlligator for pets thisJohn Quincy Adams It is said that he would have kept for two months in the bath of the bathroom of the white house of the White House. Though there isa doubt With regard to the truth of history, the Gator supposed to be a gift from the French War and Revolutionary War.Marquis de Lafayette. Another presidential animal, we are partial?Andrew Jackson's Animal parrot in the mouth,Survey, which leads to obscenities in his funeral.

To be president, the state of the Constitution, we must be a natural citizen of the United States, a resident for at least 14 years and at least 35 years. But here is a curious fact: although they are all "natural citizens" because of born in the territory that has been awarded to the United States after the revolutionary war, the first seven presidents have actually started their lives as British subjects, to be born before the United States is a sovereign nation. The eighth president,Martin van Burenwas the first born president and was completely high as a US citizen. And yet, Van Buren was born in the Dutch community of Kinderhook, New York; His first language was Dutch, which makes him the only American president to speak English as a second language.

Ninth President of America,William Henry Harrison, was long - but unfortunately, his presidency was not long-standing. On March 4, 1841, Harrison gave what ended up being theInauguration address the longestBy US President - a speech of 8,445 words that took near two hours to deliver cold cold conditions. Only 32 days later, he died pneumonia, which developed a cold he contracted during the delivery of his marathon address.

YesJohn Tyler were alive today, he could make a convincing candidate for having featured in his own television show on reality. This is because he has prepared 15 children, more than any other American president. Tyler had eight children with his first wife,Letdia Christian, who died from a stroke in 1842, just one year in the first and only term of Tyler. In 1844, he then marriedJulia Gardiner, with whom he had seven other children. Because he always spared children late in life, some of whom also feared children late in life, Tyler-who died in 1862 - still had two grandchildren living at 2017, according toU.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT.

Spouses and children are as familiar with a presidential policy factor to shake hands and kissing babies on the campaign trail. But the 15th President of the Country,James Buchananwas a rare bachelor of life in life in the White House - a soloist, except for his intimate friendship with his companion politicianWilliam Rufus Devane King, with whom some historians speculate that he may have had aromantic relationship. If he did, it would make Buchanan not only the first and only Bachelor's president, but also his first gay president.

The only thing more emblematic that Abraham Lincoln's Povepipe hat is his beard. But the honest abe did not always have this famous facial hair. When it was campaigning for the president, it was clean. In fact, he had always been clean-shaved. It has changed, however, in October 1860, when Lincoln received aletter of an 11-year-old girl namedGrace Bedell. "If you are going to let your Mustaches grow, I'll try to get [my brothers] to vote for you," wrote Bedell to Lincoln. "You would be much better so that your face is so thin. All ladies like the whiskers and teasing their husband to vote for you, then you would be president." Although he did not have any promise, he responded to Bedell ", never worn a mustaches, do not you think that people would call a piece of silly affection if I had to start?" And less than a month later, Lincoln had afull beard.

With the tastes of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy,Ulysses S. Grant is one of the handfuls of presidents who used an initial first in his formal written name. But it was distinguished "s" is actually an accident. As a young man,the story VA, Grant-of the name given, Hiram Ulyse Grant - was looking for admission to the American Military Academy of West Point. When his member of the Congress has appointed him, he wrote "Ulysse S. Grant" on demand, probably because the Grant's mother's girl was Simpson. Although grant later tried to correct the error, West Point would not change its archives. When the subsidy finally graduated with the "S" wandering, so he resigned again at the signing of his name with her. (Besides,Harry S. Truman also has a "s" of little orthodox in his name: although his parents gave him the first initial "s" in honor of his grandfathers, who both have names of S - who do not represent anything .)

If you had asked the nineteenth century policeman who once a grant, it might have told you that this erroneous median initial was standing for "Speed ​​Demon". That's right: when he was president, the grant waspulled by the cops, who cited him for having dangerously led his coach pulled by the horse. According to the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, D.C., which published the quote, the Chairman was sentenced to a fine and that his vehicle has put in place.

Here is a juicy - or not so juicy, according to your tastes-morsels onWilliam Howard Taft:One of his favorite foods wasopossum. He loved so much that he served a specimen of 26 pounds alongside Turkey atHis first White House Thanksgiving In 1909. The chair's taste for Marsupiale meat was not a secret. Toymakers have tried to exploit it by creating the "Billy Possum, "A post-plush that was a Taft-esque takes on the teddy bear, which had been created as a tribute to the predecessor of TAFT, the Hunter Bear MercifulTheodore Roosevelt. While teddy bear became an eternal cultural phenomenon, Billy Cossums was a short-term craze that was reserved almost as quickly as possible.

Due to a deadly heart attack that cut off in the short term, the President of the Prohibition Burning, Warren G. Harding only served two years at the Oval Office. But two years had a lot of time for him to win a reputation - a great negative, thank you largely to the company he has retained. First of all, there was his official cabinet, several corrupt members who took bribes. A,Albert fall, Who was Harding's secretary, even went to prison to do it. Then there was Harding'sunofficialCabinet, a group of scowing politicians and businessmen who served as friends and Harding counselors. Known as "Ohio gang"Or the" poker cabinet ", they liked playing poker, smoking cigars and drinking bottegged whiskey. During one of these games of Poker Ramous,Legend She, because she lost a complete series of China from the White House who dated more than 30 years to the presidency ofBenjamin Harrison.

Between the Great Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War, it is shocking that Franklin D. Roosevelt was at all time for the hobbies. But he did it and his favorite wasphilately. He started his collection when he was only 8 years old to exhort his mother, who also gathered stamps. When he then contracted the polio as an adult, his collection gave him something to do while he was bedridden. And when he was president, he spent time with his stamps every day as a way to relieve stress. While it was in the White House, Roosevelt personally approved more than 200 stamp designs and even had the opportunity to sketch many ideas from his designs. At the time of his death in 1945, the presidentstamp collection Includes more than 1.2 million stamps, most of which have been sold for public auction in accordance with its wishes.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Having become a major president because of his distinguished military career - a five-star general, he spent 35 years at the US military and served both in the First World War and the Second World War. During the latter, he was appointed supreme commander of the allied shipping forces, a position in which he led Operation Overhord, the invasion of Europe which started with "D-Day" in June 1944 . But one thing his vast military summary is absent that you probably supposed that it had?Combat.

Everyone knowsJohn F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. But did you also know that he had an unprecedented deathfive timesbefore that fateful day? His first brush with death has occurred in childhood: 2 years, Kennedy almost died of Scarlet Fever. His second brush occurred during World War II, when Kennedy was 26 years old in the navy. Cruise in the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer collided with his ship and caused it to explode, after which Kennedy had to swim for four hours to find the nearest island. The brush number three arrived four years later, when Kennedy was hospitalized and diagnosed with Addison's disease, a rare adrenal disorder. When the disease recurs in later years, Kennedy almost died a fourth time. His fifth and final death experience came in 1954 when Kennedy developed a post-surgical urinary tract infection which was further exacerbated by his Addison's disease. For two of Kennedy's experiments, he ended up in a coma for four of them, a priest went to administer his last rites.

At 6 feet 4 inches tall,Lyndon B. Johnsonwas an intimidating presence. First as a senator, then as president, he used his size to his advantage. It was not enough to just turn on his fellow politicians. To get what he wanted them, he used what became known as the "Johnson treatment. "With a verbal approach columnist newspaperMary McGroryonce described as "an incredible mixture and powerful persuasion, joke, flattery, threats, reminders of past and future benefits favors," it included a masterful technical physics: when he wanted something from someone, Johnson pierce his personal bubble, leaning into them and speaking with his face only inches from them.

Richard Nixon Was hardly the first president who loved to relax by rolling some strikes. Harry S. Truman also enjoyed bowling and opened the first White HouseBowling Alley In 1947. Although Dwight D. Eisenhower closed in 1955 to make way for a mimeograph room, it was later rebuilt in a new location, where Lyndon B. Johnson was frequently used.

Nixon was so fond of bowling This went to the White House was not enough. So there was a second installed underground directly under the entrance of North Portico of the White House. Because the first alley was open to staff of the White House, Nixon chose the second, more private facilities. But was he right? Nixonapparently once played an impressive 232.

If you were betting on which the American president was the biggest movie fan, you probably would put your money on the player in America - President of the tour,Ronald Reagan. And it would be a big assumption. Reagan would have looked363 movies during his two terms in office. There were at least a president who has expired, however:Jimmy Carter. Although this is an opposite of a President "Hollywood", the former aracheurericulteur nevertheless watched more than 400 movies while he was commander in chief - and he held office only four years, half of the eight Reagan! Among the many flicks observed in the White HouseApocalypse now,Shane,Extraterrestrial,The Empire Counter-Attack,All the President's Men, plane,andCaddyshack.He even looked at what must be one of the less "presidential" movies of all time:House pets.

Through its inaction during theAIDS epidemicThe Reagan administration was not the greatest public health reputation. Yet Reagan made at least one positive thing in this area: it contributed to stigmatizing hearing loss. The former actor becamehard of hearing In his right ear when another interpreter fired a pistol near his head as they turned a movie. His hearing deteriorated further as it ages and in 1983 - at age 72 - he started to wear alistening device for hearing impaired. At that time, hearing loss was synonymous with decay. Wearing his audience, however, Reagan standard hearing aids, both forSTARKEY LABORATORIES , the company that made the president's ring road, Quadrupled sales After Reagan went public with his hearing loss. To learn more about surprising presidential health standards, read Is the president physically different from your president?

Additional reporting by Alex Daniel .