Little Known Presidential Facts (add your favorites)

[poorpete]

If JFK were still alive he'd be the second-longest-living president ever, only behind reanimated Lincoln.

[Cazmonster]

Ronald Reagan was the first slave of the Lizard People to serve as President. He was closely guided by the Hive Matriarch you knew as Nancy.

[poorpete]

Lincoln once skipped a penny across the Mississippi river, killing two.

[Mike]

William Howard Taft was the first president to be referred to by a journalist in print as a douchebag.

[Elle]

Though Clinton's bike ride through the White House with Tony Blair became famous, Gerald Ford was the first President known to skateboard through its halls.

[poorpete]

John Tyler was nicknamed "His Accidency", not because he was the first to become president due to a presidential death, but because he shat his pants so much the stain started to resemble a silhouette of King George III.

[Cazmonster]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered a Turkish hex in 1920, severing his body at the waist yet leaving him alive. It was Nicola Tesla who developed the autonomous perambulatory legs he wore starting in 1921.

[akiva]

[Elle]

John Adams may have been the second President, but was the first woman President.

[akiva]

The presidential election of 1876 was decided by a bad back. Congress had to decide which slates of electors to certify as official; after exhausting all other tie breakers, the competition came down to a wrestling match between Tilden and Hayes. Tilden had to back out before the match even started due to a bad back.

[poorpete]

Contrary to the legend, Washington didn't actually chop down a cherry tree.


It was a red oak.


He was a big fat liar.

[Elle]

And yet, cherries may have caused President Zachary Taylor to die.

[Cazmonster]

Chester A Arthur's prolific face hair was widely emulated by young men from New York. That's how we got the first Hippies.

[poorpete]

JFK's infamous "Ich bin ein Berliner" line didn't mean "I am a Berliner" but actually "I am secretly Hitler."

Hence the cheering.

[Mike]

Barack Obama was born with three nipples.

[Eliahad]

[Tahlvin]

John Quincy Adams was really zombie-John Adams.

[Cazmonster]

Moon Landrieu had to talk Jimmy Carter out of his assassination plot against Richard Nixon.

[Mike]

James K. Polk was an officially bonded bounty hunter before becoming president and in fact collected on two bounties while in office: Gardenia Beaumont and AnnaMaria Gruenenfeld, both murderesses of some renown.

[poorpete]

Ronald Reagan was the inspiration for Thomas A. Swift's Electric and Round Ray Gun.