1)  22nd President, Grover Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap at a hanging.

2)  39th President, Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO

3) 4th President, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were once arrested together for taking a carriage ride in the countryside of Vermont on a Sunday, which violated the laws of that state.

4) 30th President, Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating his breakfast in bed.

5)  29th President Warren G Harding (1865-1923) repeatedly made love to a young girl, Nan Britton, in a White House closet. On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from beating down the closet door.

6)  41st President Bush Sr. vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister; a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.

7)  The term “O.K.” derives from the 8th President Martin Van Buren who was known as “Old Kinderhook” because he was raised in Kinderhook, New York. “O.K.” clubs were created to support Van Buren’s campaigns.

8)    15th President James Buchanan quietly but consistently bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and then set them free in Pennsylvania.

9) Robert Lincoln is the only man in U.S. history known to have witnessed the assassinations of three different presidents, his 16th father, 20th James Garfield, and 25th William McKinley. After he saw anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoot McKinley, he vowed he would never again appear in public with an incumbent president. That man was Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert.

10) As a young man, 19th President Rutherford Birchard Hayes fought lyssophobia, or the fear of going insane.

11) 15th James Buchanan is the only bachelor president. He was virtually inseparable from William R. King (1786-1853), a senator from Alabama, earning the pair the nickname “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy” and “Mr. Buchanan and his wife.”