Unusual Strange Facts About US Presidents

Some Unusually Weird but Funny Facts about US Presidents

We often read about these guys on books that praise them for their works and how they lived their lives. Oftentimes, we miss to know about the unusual facts these presidents hide beneath those over flowery authors. Well, on this blog, youll see another picture of these guys.

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In addition to his many other eccentricities, Thomas Jefferson had some unusual pets. Merriwether Lewis and William Clark sent back from the Louisiana purchase some grizzly cubs, and Jefferson was often seen walking them around the grounds of the White House. (Although Herbert Hoover might have bested this: his son had two pet alligators.)
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William Howard Taft, our 27th President, was known as "Big Bill," and for a good reason. He was 6' 2" tall and weighed over 330 pounds. He was so large, in fact, that he once got stuck in the White House bath tub, which had to be replaced with a special oversized version.

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John Tyler, who became president after the death of Harrison, later joined the confederacy and was elected to their house of representatives.
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Warren G. Harding -- considered by many to be one of the worst presidents ever -- was also an avid gambler. He once bet all the White House china on a hand of cards -- and lost. He also gave his dog, Laddie Boy, its own seat at the cabinet table. Somewhat ironically, perhaps, he coined the term "normalcy." - Now, this is definitely a certified weird fact from US Presidents

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Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to run against a woman -- the 1872 nominee of the Equal Rights Party, Victoria Woodhull, a spiritualist, activist, and former prostitute known as "the high priestess of free love."
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In addition to being the first president to be assassinated, Abraham Lincoln had the unusual distinction of being the first president to endure an attempted grave robbing. In 1876, thieves tried to steal his body from its tomb, in the hopes of holding it for ransom. However, they failed to get him out of his casket.
Lincoln was also no fan of women, and the subject of his sexuality is often in dispute. Sufficed to say, his relationship with his wife, Mary Todd, was anything but serene. By all accounts, she was controlling, cruel, and a bit of a shopoholic. Many have speculated that she was manic depressive, or even psychopathic. Lincoln himself once said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know can't hurt me."

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Chester A. Arthur, who became president after the assassination of James Garfield, suffered from Bright's disease -- what modern medicine calls nephritis -- but kept it a secret, and even attempted to gain the nomination for a second term (he died less than two years after leaving office). And he was not the only president to conceal an illness.
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In addition to FDR's well-known secret paralysis, JFK suffered from Addision's disease, a rare endocrine disorder, and has been called by some historians "likely the sickest man ever to hold office."

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Benjamin Harrison, who served as president from 1889-1893, was frightened of the newfangled electricity in the White House. He and his family were afraid to touch the switches for the electric lights, and often had White House staff do it for them.
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And lastly, some presidential firsts: Abraham Lincoln was the first to receive a patent (for a floating drydock);

Millard Fillmore was the first president to have a stepmother;

James K. Polk was the first president to have his swearing-in reported by telegraph;

Hoover was the first to have a telephone on his desk (as well as the first millionaire);

FDR was the first to appear on television,

Truman was the first to ride in a submarine;

and Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.

Random Unusual and Strange Facts about English Language

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
"mt".

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the
English language.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters "und."

There are only four words in the English language which end
in"-dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau
ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed
on a watch is 10:10.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.It was eliminated
when he was sewn up after surgery.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have
the same pattern of whiskers.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the
book 'The Naked Lunch'.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses
II who fathered over 160 children.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that
contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
"therein" the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette
Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in
Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw
up.The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it's mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully
ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth
from 1.8 miles away.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the
creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z,
hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a
statement made by swearing on their testicles.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different
ways.The following sentence contains them all "A rough-coated,
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have
about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days
of lore when the engines were pulled by horses.The horses were stabled
on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.