Presidential trivia with a twist

Here is a sample of what to expect as this progresses.

As Presidents Day is in February, let's start there.

- Yes, it is a fact that there have been more vice presidents than presidents. However, the VP is less important. Much less important.

- The first president born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter. He used the name Jimmy, by the way, which was his nickname. No other president used their nickname at their swearing in. No word if any swore, either.

- On that note, there was a doctor named Bliss who thought he could simply extract the bullet from President Garfield's wound and ended up doing way more damage. You think that is odd, well this guy's legal first name was Doctor, as in Doctor Bliss.

- Every time I hear the name Grover Cleveland, I think of the Sesame Street character. That is a character flaw in me, I am thinking.

- Keeping with that idea, every time I hear the name Herbert Hoover, I think of a vacuum cleaner.

- Andrew Jackson was actually born in a log cabin. 

- That patent that Abraham Lincoln obtained was never utilized. What was it? That does not matter at this point.

- For some reason, Chester Arthur was inaugurated at his home.

- The key fact to the idea that Richard Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states was that there were not 50 states until 1959. 

- I am not sure if Lyndon Johnson hated high school, but he graduated at age 15.

- Martin Van Buren was born in America. Now wait before you dismiss this one. He was the first to be born here. Hmmm.

- Sure, Andrew Johnson did not have a pet, but he did consider the mice that occupied the White House as his own, well, pets.

- Perhaps Harry Truman got the idea of using "S" in his name the way Ulysses Grant did. That would be having it stand for nothing. They both did this.

- Yes, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were born in February, but so was Ronald Reagan.

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