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  • Which President Made MLK Jr. Day A National Holiday?

  • How Old Was Trump When He Was Inaugurated?

  • Who was the first left-handed President?

  • What state produced the most U.S. presidents?

    Check out these essential facts about presidential elections in American history.

    John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all won the presidency without winning the popular vote. Adams, Harrison and Trump were one-term presidents who went on to lose both the popular and electoral votes in their bids for reelection. Hayes did not run for reelection, and Bush was reelected after winning both the popular and electoral votes in his second election.

    Two Elections Were Decided by Congress

    The closest election in American history was in 1824 between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay. Because none of the candidates received the 131 electoral votes necessary to win, the decision went to the House of Representatives, who elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election. The 1824 election was the second election decided by Congress; the first was the presidential election of 1800 in which Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in the Electoral College.

  • Which President Got Stuck In A Bathtub?

  • What is the real name of Uncle Sam?

    Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.

    In 1917, after several years of bloody stalemate along the Western Front, the entrance of America’s fresh, well-supplied forces into the Great War—a decision announced by President Woodrow Wilson in April and provoked largely by Germany’s blatant attacks on American ships at sea—proved to be a major turning point in the conflict. American naval forces arrived in Britain on April 9, only three days after the formal declaration of war. On June 13, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), commanded by the celebrated General John J. Pershing, reached the shores of France.

  • Which President Invented the Swivel Chair?

    Jefferson had come to the conclusion sometime during 1774 or 1775 that the Windsor Chair he had been using for work while drafting the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia didn’t offer him enough movement, so he resolved to create something that did. The modification to a swivel chair involved introducing an iron spindle between the top and bottom half which allowed the chair to rotate on rollers taken from window sash pulleys.

    Jefferson was so taken with his invention that he took it with him when he returned in 1776 to his plantation in Monticello in Virginia. Jefferson made a number of modifications to his design  for the swivel chair including replacing the original legs with bamboo and introducing a writing surface to one of the arms. It returned to Philadelphia in 1836 where it remains in the possession of the American Philosophical Society.

  • Who was the first president to attend a baseball game?

    Facts

    Reagan regularly consulted with an astrologer, Joan Quigley, before making decisions and scheduling big events.

    Bush inspired a Japanese word, “Bushusuru,” which means “to do the Bush thing.” What thing, you ask? Vomiting in public, as Bush did all over the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992.

    Bill Clinton has two Grammys (one for Best Spoken Word Album and another for Best Spoken Word Album for Children).

    Barack Obama while studying at Harvard, he applied to be featured in a black pin-up calendar. The all-female committee declined (and probably regret it every single day).

  • What is Trump\’s Designated Secret Service Nickname?

    Trump told Forbes that his first income came when he (above, on the left) and his brother (above, on the right) collected discarded soda bottles on the construction sites run by his father, a New York builder. The empty glass bottles could be exchanged with the distributor for a few cents each. “It was probably equal to a below-average allowance,” Trump said.

    Trump’s favorite movie is the 1941 Citizen Kane, which tells the story of a larger-than-life newspaper baron. “I think you learn in Citizen Kane that maybe wealth isn’t everything. Because he had the wealth, but he didn’t have the happiness,” Trump said

  • Who are the only 2 Presidents to Donate their Salary?

    Fun Facts

    • Starbucks pays more for employee health insurance than it pays for coffee.
    • No insurance company will underwrite Jackie Chan’s productions.
    • America Ferrera had her smile insured for $10,000,000.
    • Trump and Ronald Reagan are the only two U.S. presidents with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the celebrated sidewalk in California that honors more than 2,500 notable achievers in the entertainment industry. Trump was honored in 2007 for his work on his reality-television show, “The Apprentice.” Reagan received his star in 1960 for his acting career before he entered politics.
    • The Secret Service, tasked with the president’s security, gives nicknames to designate the president, as well as each member of his family. Every first family’s nicknames begin with the same letter. President-elect Trump’s nickname is Mogul.