[President fact 1] In 1840, Abraham Lincoln and four other legislators jumped out of a window in order to prevent a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois state bank.
[President fact 2] Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a National Holiday in 1863 during the Civil War to keep the country together.
[President fact 3] 2 days before Christmas 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a visit to Pope Paul VI where they exchanged unique gifts. While LBJ received a stunning 15th-century painting from Pope Paul VI, the pope himself received a foot-high, bronze bust of Johnson's head.
[President fact 4] Muslim and Hindu villagers in the district of Solapur, Maharashtra, West India, have been throwing babies off a 50ft temple for over 500 years. The babies land and bounce on a bed-sheet held taut by men below. The ritual is considered to bring good health and good luck to the children.
[President fact 5] Charlie Chaplin had almost been assassinated by the assassins of Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi, hoping to instigate a war with the USA. Chaplin, however, escaped this fate as he had gone with the prime minister's son to a sumo wrestling match.
[President fact 6] During the 1943 Bengal genocide in India, Winston Churchill as part of the war effort, diverted food from starving Indians to already well-supplied british soldiers and stores elsewhere in Europe. 3 million Indians starved to death. Churchill's response was to ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet.
[President fact 7] In 2012, a woman successfully sold a Chicken McNugget on eBay for $8,100 because it looked like George Washington.
[President fact 8] The OSS director once showcased the then newly invented gun silencer to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by shooting 10 rounds at a sandbag in the oval office without Roosevelt noticing, and then handing him the smoking gun.
[President fact 9] George Washington almost joined the Royal Navy (British Navy) but his mom talked him out of it.
[President fact 10] After Ronald Reagan watched the movie WarGames he asked “Could something like this really happen?” to his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a week later the general returned and said, “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.”
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