40 fun and weird facts about our presidents
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I reached a BIG milestone this week over at my YouTube channel: I got to 40,000 subscribers!
To celebrate, I made a video — with 40 fun and fascinating facts about our presidents. Get it? 40,000 ——> 40????? Ingenious, right? 😂😂😂
You can watch the whole thing below. But here’s a taste:
Three presidents have won Grammy awards –- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. All won for best spoken word performance.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with bringing French Fries, ice cream and mac and cheese to America.
James Garfield could write, simultaneously, in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
Ronald Reagan claimed to have saved 77 people when he was a lifeguard in his teen years
James Madison weighed less than 100 pounds
Martin van Buren had two tiger cubs as pets. They were given to him by the Sultan of Oman.
James Buchanan is the only president who was NEVER married
Rutherford B Hayes was the first president to hold an Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn
Grover Cleveland personally answered the White House phone
Woodrow Wilson is the only president buried in DC (at the National Cathedral)
Chris mentioned that John Tyler had 15 kids, the most of any president. He was born in 1790, and what is really fascinating is that as recently as a few years ago, he still had 2 living grandchildren! Yes, it's true.
"Both my grandfather — the president — and my father, were married twice. And they had children by their first wives. And their first wives died, and they married again and had more children. And my father was 75 when I was born, his father was 63 when he was born," Harrison Tyler explained to New York Magazine in 2012. Harrison was born in 1928.
Hi Chris! I just watched the video for this. I don't have a YouTube account, so I can't comment on there, but I loved it! I love presidential trivia, but I hadn't heard most of these, so thank you! Up and to the right!