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1. The teddy bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt. On a camping trip, Roosevelt refused to shoot a small bear cub. The teddy bear was born!
2. Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
3. Dwight Eisenhower is the only president to serve in both World War One and World War Two.
4. Andrew Jackson had a parrot that was so profane, it had to be removed from Jackson’s funeral for swearing.
5. James Garfield survived as assassination attempt, only to die from blood poisoning after doctors attempted to remove a bullet from his back. It is said Garfield could have survived with the bullet in his back. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, claimed that he didn’t kill the president, the doctors had. He then was hanged anyway.
6. Martin Van Buren was the first President to be born a U.S. citizen.
7. John Tyler was born in 1790, and still has two living grandchildren.
8. Woodrow Wilson is the only President to have earned a Ph.D. He didn’t learn to read until he was 10 years old.
9. James Madison was the shortest President. He was only 5’4″ and never weighed more than 100 pounds.
10. Once, while giving a speech, Teddy Roosevelt was shot. He continued to deliver his speech with the bullet in his chest.
11. William Taft is known as the largest President. Dubbed “Big Bill,” Taft weighed 325 pounds, and often got stuck in the White House bathtub.
12. William Henry Harrison gave the longest inauguration speech – 8,578 words in one hour, 40 minutes. Unfortunately, it was cold outside during his speech, he cought pneumonia, and then died exactly one month later.
13. Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office for four terms, from 1933 – 1945. He served 12 years, 1 month, and 8 days until dying right before World War Two ended. He is the only President to serve more than two terms.
14. George Washington gave the shortest inauguration speech on record – 133 words and less then two minutes long.
15. John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to be president, the first Boy Scout to become president, and the first president to be born in the 20th century.
16. Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service Hours before his assassination.
17. Calvin Collidge had a pet pygmy hippopotamus named Billy.
18. During World War Two, ten men survived a plane crash after being shot down by the Japanese. Only one was rescued, and the other nine men died at the hands of the Japanese. The lone survivor was George H. W. Bush.