TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

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Some scientists have suggested that left-handers were originally in the womb with a twin that did not survive, or a “Vanishing Twin.”

 

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Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO.

 

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the shortest president of the United States, standing at only 5’4”. He never weighed more than 100 pounds.

 

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George Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long.

 

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The youngest president was Teddy Roosevelt who became president at age 42 when McKinley (1843-1901) was assassinated. JFK was the youngest president elected at the age of 43.

 

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Three presidents died on July 4th: Thomas Jefferson (1826), John Adams (1826), and James Monroe (1831). Calvin Coolidge is the only president to have been born on the Fourth (1872).

 

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George Herbert Walker Bush is the only President with four names.

 

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo, he is standing near John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin.

 

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James Garfield didn’t die from the gunshot wounds from his assassin’s gun; he died of blood poisoning after doctors and experts (including Alexander Graham Bell) tried to remove the bullet from his back with their dirty fingers and instruments, causing him to linger in pain for 80 days before dying. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, later claimed that he didn’t kill the president, the doctors had.

 

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Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating his breakfast in bed.

 

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During his second run for presidency, Teddy Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin while giving a speech in Milwaukee. He continued to deliver his speech with the bullet in his chest.

 

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The first attempt to assassinate a president was on Andrew Jackson by Richard Lawrence, a house painter. Both of his guns misfired, however—an event that statisticians say could occur only once in 125,000 times. Andrew Jackson then chased Lawrence with his walking stick.

 

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At 325 pounds, William Howard Taft (1857-1930), who was dubbed “Big Bill,” was the largest president in American history and often got stuck in the White House bathtub. His advisors had to sometimes pull him out.

 

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Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get a cold.

 

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Woodrow Wilson (born Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924) would paint his golf balls black during the winter so he could continue playing in the snow.

 

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Teddy Roosevelt’s last request before dying was “Please put out the light.” Thomas Jefferson’s last words were “This is the Fourth?” John Adam’s dying words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives,” unaware that Jefferson had passed away a few hours earlier.

 

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No America president has ever been an only child.

 

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Historians argue whether George Washington actually added the phrase "“so help me God” to the end of presidential oath. As far as can be determined, the first President who is known to have appended the phrase to the oath was Chester Alan Arthur. He added the phrase when he was sworn into office on September 22, 1881, after the death of President Garfield.

 

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Every so often, Calvin Coolidge would press all the buttons on the President’s desk and hide and watch his staff run in. He would then pop out from behind the door and say that he was just seeing if everyone was working.

 

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The first president to be born outside the original 13 States was Lincoln.