Happy President's Day!

Happy Glorified Excuse for a Day Off...ahem...I mean, President's Day!

Just because it's fun, I thought I would do a quick post in honor of our past leaders and share some fun facts about some of them. Why not?

This list was found here, and claim to have gotten these facts from the Shelby Township and Utica libraries. Some of these are quite funny!

• At his inauguration, George Washington only had one tooth. Contrary to popular belief, he never wore false wooden teeth. However, at various times he did wear dentures made of human teeth, animal teeth, ivory and lead.
• Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only two presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence. They also both died on the same day – July 4, 1826 – the 50th anniversary of the signing.
• James Madison was the first president to wear trousers, as opposed to knee length "breeches." At 5'4", he was also the shortest president. 
• Weather permitting, John Quincy Adams swam nude in the Potomac River every day. 
• Before he was President, Andrew Jackson was wounded in a duel at the age of 39. The bullet remained lodged in his heart until the day he died. 
• Zachary Taylor let his old Army horse, Whitey, graze on the White House lawn. Visitors took horse hairs as souvenirs. 
• James Buchanan was nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other. As a result he always cocked his head to the left. 
• While he was President, Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for driving his horse too fast and fined $20. He smoked 20 cigars a day and died of throat cancer.
• Theodore Roosevelt had a photographic memory. He could read a page in the time it took anyone else to read a sentence. 
• James K. Polk's wife did not allow card playing, dancing, or drinking in the White House.
• James A. Garfield could write with both hands. To entertain people he would write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.
• Benjamin Harrison was terrified of electric lights. He would ask White House staff to turn them on and off for him.
• Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. president to use a phone at the White House. Alexander Graham Bell personally showed him how to use it and his phone number was 1.
• Calvin Coolidge liked having his head massaged with Vaseline during breakfast in bed. (don't get any ideas, honey!) He also rode his own mechanical bull and played "ding-dong ditch'em" – he would ring the White House doorbell and then run and hide.
• Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three Presidents: his father's, President Garfield's and President McKinley's. 
• All Presidents receive code names from the Secret Service. Ronald Reagan was 'Rawhide', George H. W. Bush was 'Timberwolf', Bill Clinton was 'Eagle', George W. Bush was 'Trailblazer' and Barack Obama is 'Renegade'.
• Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in Springfield, Ill.
• Herbert Clark Hoover ordered his White House servants to hide from him whenever he passed by. If they didn't, they ran the risk of  being fired.

The links included in this list will take you to other sites with even MORE trivia! Everything you never knew you always wanted to know about our leaders! :)

If you had the day off today, I hope you were able to enjoy it. If you didn't, happy Monday anyway! :)

And just because I thought this was bizarre and a little funny, I leave you with this: