Our former presidents have been a lot of things: badass, wussy, handicapped, genius, and just plain nutso. So, relax and enjoy these delightful tidbits of presidential knowledge.
5. President Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender and co-owned a saloon in Springfield, Illinois.
As if this dude needed to be cooler.
4. President Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve as a hangman.
As the sheriff of Erie County, New York, he had the delightful pleasure of hanging two poor souls. Way to represent Western New York, Grover.
3. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are vandals.
While visiting Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon, they both took knives to one of the bard's chairs in order to have a little sliver of wood as a souvenir. Though if anyone is going to do this, it may as well be two of the greatest legal writers in American history.
2. President Ulysses Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day.
He died of throat cancer--no lie. Also, his name was Ulysses, which is pretty damn cool.
1. President Warren G. Harding liked to do it...in small spaces.
Apparently Warren liked to make the beast with two backs with a young girl in a White House closet. The Secret Service even had to stop Mrs. Harding from breaking down the door once while they were in there. Makes Bill Clinton look like a saint...almost.
