In honor of President's Day, some little known facts about our former Commanders in Chief.
*Grover Cleveland is the only president to be elected on two non-consecutive terms AND the only president with a Muppet named after him.
*In 1838 People Magazine named Martin Van Buren it's "Sexiest Man Alive". This led to his trademark "Van Buren Burns" becoming all the rage.
*The famous slogan "I Like Ike" was actually Eisenhower's third choice after advisers deemed "I Prefer Dwight" not catchy enough and "Mighty Dwighty" too suggestive.
*Due to his parents lack of imagination, the "A" in Chester A. Arthur stood for "Arthur".
*Abraham Lincoln began wearing the stove pipe hat only after losing a cockfight bet to Vice President Johnson.
*In a little known addendum to the Versailles Treaty, President Woodrow Wilson was supposed to get to shave Kaiser Whilhem's mustache.
*Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed legislation that would have made referring to your spouse as "my better half" a federal offense.
*During the Great Depression, in an attempt to bring in revenue, Herbert Hoover toyed with the idea of renting out the East Room of the White House for weddings and bar mitzvahs.
*Much like his namesake cartoon cat, James Garfield hated Mondays and loved lasagna.
*Millard Fillmore did not have a vice president because none of the potential candidates could say his name without giggling.
*At the time of his death, Warren G. Harding was in negotiations to lend his name to a line of male enhancement devices.
...and now you know.
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