Here are quirky, useless, and slightly fun facts about some of your most celebrated American presidents:
- 9th U.S. president William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest inauguration speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in U.S. history. (Why, why, why didn't this happen to our current president?)
- John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, fathered 15 children (more than any other president)--8 by his first wife, and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born. (ok, wow, old people having sex is gross.)
- Sedated only by brandy, 11th president of the United States James Polk survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17. (What. a. man.)
- Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat. (stovepipe hat the new wallet?)
- 17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson never attended school. His future wife, Eliza McCardle, taught him to write at the age of 17. (Bonus fact about Andrew Johnson: He only wore suits that he custom-tailored himself.)
Blah blah blah... let's skip to our current president's fun fact!
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, and his wife Laura got married just three months after meeting each other.
AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
Georgie is such a charmer.
