1. She was already married.
   She was 40 years older than him.
2. She wasn't American.
   She hated Jackson.

Andrew Jackson married Rachel Donelson in 1791. Unfortunately for the happy couple, Donelson was still married to her first husband, Lewis Robards, making Jackson's marriage invalid.

1. They never did.
   One hour
2. One day
   Seven years

Congress was not aware that the National Security Agency was even a thing when President Truman created it. Its existence can be traced to a memo he wrote at the bottom of a larger document. It was quite a while before Congress was even aware of the agency's existence.

1. The White House china
   Lincoln's hat
2. Washington's teeth
   Vermont

Warren Harding was apparently not the sort of man who would turn down a game of cards, and word is he got in so bad during one game that he actually ended up losing the White House china to an opponent.

1. Jimmy Carter
   Gerald Ford
2. Ronald Reagan
   Lyndon Johnson

When he was still the governor of Georgia back in 1973, Jimmy Carter filed a report about seeing an unidentified flying object in the skies above a Lions Club meeting he was attending in 1969. He says about a dozen other people witnessed the white, glowing object turn blue, then red, then back to white.

1. James K. Polk
   William Rufus King
2. Franklin Pierce
   Millard Fillmore

William Rufus King was VP under Franklin Pierce and lived with James Buchanan for years. Though we'll never know for sure today, it was a common belief at the time that the two men were a couple, and many historians believe Buchanan was gay.

1. Playboy
   Cosmopolitan
2. Elle
   Better Homes and Gardens

Long before he became President, Gerald Ford worked as a male model and even had a cover of Cosmo under his belt. This wasn't something he advertised when he was in office, but he was featured on a 1942 issue in his Navy uniform.

1. Grover Cleveland
   Benjamin Harrison
2. William Mckinley
   Chester A. Arthur

Electricity was installed in the White House in 1891 when Benjamin Harrison was president. Despite allowing the installation to occur, Harrison reportedly never touched any of the switches as he was afraid of what might happen if he did.

1. He had people spy on his brother.
   His brother was a spy.
2. He was paying his brother under the table.
   His brother was illegitimate.

Nixon was a very mistrustful man, and that extended to even his own family. His younger brother, Donald Nixon, had some financial issues that concerned Richard, so President Nixon hired people to keep an eye on his brother and his business dealings.

1. He was shot.
   He contracted malaria.
2. He moved back to his own house.
   He had a stroke.

Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke while he was serving as president but refused to leave the office. The extent of his condition wasn't known until about two years later, and word is his wife actually made most of the decisions for the latter part of his presidency.

1. John Tyler
   Martin Van Buren
2. Franklin Roosevelt
   John Quincy Adams

As weird as it sounds, John Quincy Adams believed the world was hollow thanks to a man named John Cleves Symmes, Jr. Adams approved the Symmes expedition to the center of the earth and was hoping to meet a race of subterranean beings.

1. Milk
   Oatmeal
2. Petroleum jelly
   Mud

Believing it was healthy and improved his overall well-being, President Coolidge was known to have petroleum jelly massaged into his scalp while he ate breakfast in bed. Odds are he didn't share this at too many state dinners.

1. John F. Kennedy
   Lyndon Baines Johnson
2. Dwight Eisenhower
   George Bush

These days JFK is remembered as a youthful president, but he suffered from a series of health concerns for much of his life. Even before he had become president, he had undergone four back surgeries and was often in severe pain.

1. Bats
   Blood
2. The dark
   Fire

Despite being so closely associated with the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was apparently quite afraid of the sight of blood. And while many people are averse to blood, Grant hated it so much, the word is he demanded any meat he eats be grilled thoroughly so he wouldn't have to see it at all.

1. A bowling alley
   A bathtub
2. A bar
   A waterbed

William Taft was a man who liked a bath and had a bathtub installed on the USS North Carolina for his visit to the Panama Canal. This wasn't just a tub, though, as it weighed one ton and was massive. As an aside, you may have heard Taft once got stuck in a bathtub. That story isn't true.

1. Calvin Coolidge
   Harry Truman
2. Herbert Hoover
   Grover Cleveland

Herbert Hoover and his wife apparently hated seeing staff and servants around the White House. Staff would literally duck behind shrubs or hide in closets so that Hoover wouldn't see them at work.

1. Swim
   Run
2. Garden
   Cook

John Quincy Adams was known to be an early riser, as in 4 a.m. early. He wanted to start his day refreshed so he'd often head down to the Potomac River, disrobe, and then go for a swim.

1. One
   Two
2. Three
   Four

The last rites are a Catholic ritual performed when someone dies. JFK received the last rites on four separate occasions before he actually died in 1963. Kennedy had a very rough life and had nearly died from scarlet fever, then later during the war, then twice from Addison's disease.

1. George Washington
   Abraham Lincoln
2. Donald Trump
   Richard Nixon

Abraham Lincoln was quite the grappler in his day though the fine details are sketchy. Unfounded rumors say he only lost one match in 300 while a more accurate representation would be that, by his own admission, he won numerous games before a man named Lorenzo Dow Thompson handed him his first loss.

1. James K. Polk
   Zachary Taylor
2. James Madison
   Millard Fillmore

James Madison was a much tinier man than most people realize. He was only 5'4" tall, and though his weight, like anyone's, fluctuated throughout his life, the word is he never topped 100lbs.

1. James Garfield
   Teddy Roosevelt
2. Franklin Roosevelt
   Ulysses S. Grant

Surprisingly, Ulysses S. Grant was once arrested for speeding, which is interesting since Grant lived before the automobile. He was cited for speeding with a horse and carriage and ended up paying a $20 fine, but he skipped out on his court date.

1. Barack Obama
   Bill Clinton
2. George W. Bush
   Donald Trump

In 2011, Bill Clinton was being interviewed on NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," and the hosts came at him with an impromptu quiz about the cartoon "My Little Pony." Inexplicably, Clinton got all three questions correct. Is he a secret fan? We may never know.

1. Charlton Heston
   Burt Lancaster
2. Clint Eastwood
   Charles Bronson

Clint Eastwood was a potential running mate for George Bush senior when he was trailing Dukakis back in 1988. The team was desperate, and Eastwood had been a Republican mayor in California for a spell, so he was briefly, but seriously, considered. It was years later when that story came out.

1. Thomas Jefferson
   Martin Van Buren
2. James Monroe
   James Madison

John Adams once said that he never heard Thomas Jefferson speak more than three sentences together at one time during their tenure together in congress. Jefferson gave two speeches during his presidency, and they were apparently so quiet people had a hard time even hearing them.

1. Ghost hunting
   Embalming
2. Casting spells
   Seances

Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was very much into the supernatural and reportedly held several seances in the White House, some of which Lincoln himself attended. There's no definitive word on whether Lincoln was a believer, though.

1. Air Force One
   Chelsea Clinton
2. The nuclear codes
   The keys to the White House

Of all the things a president could lose, the nuclear codes are probably the worst one. For some time during Clinton's presidency, the codes were nowhere to be found, and no one is sure who even lost them. They were, of course, replaced, as is routine, but it was months before anyone even knew they had vanished.

1. Ivory
   Corpse teeth
2. Granite
   Chicken bones

Wooden teeth are a lot less creepy than the truth in this case. Washington apparently only had one real tooth left in his head. The false teeth he used had been harvested from corpses.

1. Dancing
   Prayer
2. Natural light
   Meat

James K. Polk's wife Sarah was a devout Presbyterian and banned many things from the White House, including card games, alcohol and dancing. She was known by the nickname "Sahara Sarah" for her dry, dull demeanor.

1. Stanfield
   Sutton
2. Spencer
   It doesn't stand for anything.

Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. His father made a special request that Grant be allowed into Westpoint, and the man who nominated him miswrote Grant's name. He was listed as "Cadet U.S. Grant," which he took to mean Ulysses S. Grant. The name inexplicably stuck, but the S never had a meaning.

1. Harry Truman
   Dwight Eisenhower
2. Herbert Hoover
   Teddy Roosevelt

Eisenhower was a big fan of golf and liked to play on the White House grounds. Squirrels kept burying acorns on his putting green, however, and that enraged him. He ordered they be shot on sight, but the Secret Service had to step in because guns were not allowed on the grounds. The squirrels earned a reprieve and were trapped and released.

1. His widow
   His son
2. His parrot
   His dog

Andrew Jackson had a pet parrot that needed to be escorted out of the president's funeral. What's the hidden secret here? The parrot was ejected for cursing up a storm. Jackson had apparently taught the bird how to swear, and it let loose such a disruptive string of obscenities they needed to remove it from the funeral.

1. Dancer
   Stand-up comedian
2. Rodeo clown
   Baseball player

In the 1950s, Reagan started losing the acting gigs that had been paying the bills for him. He shifted gears away from film and took a job in Las Vegas as a stand-up comedian for a few weeks in 1954.

1. Belch
   Satan
2. Mother
   Crappy

John Adams was the second president but the first to have pets in the White House, which made his dog Satan the first presidential pet. He also had dogs named Juno and Mark, but that seems somewhat less bizarre. Try to imagine the controversy of a modern president with a dog named Satan.

1. He'd greet guests in his pajamas.
   He slept during meetings.
2. He ate raw meat.
   He'd spit on the floors.

Thomas Jefferson was a casual man of leisure and was the sort of person who entertained guests without making a big deal out of it. As such, he was known to greet people in nothing but his pajamas. Not exactly the formal image the office of President usually conveys.

1. He shot a man in a duel.
   He was illiterate.
2. He wasn't legally elected.
   He had an affair.

Thomas Jefferson is widely believed to have had a sustained affair with Sally Hemmings, who had been one of Jefferson's slaves. Moreover, most historians believe he fathered six children with her, as well.

1. David Rice Atchison
   Gerald M. Neville
2. Louis Montague
   Carroll Shelby

James K. Polk's presidency ended on Sunday, March 4, 1849. Zachary Taylor didn't want to be signed into office on a Sunday. So for that one day, there was technically no president. Unless you believe David Rice Atchison, who was the head of the senate and believed, with no president or vice president in office, he was effectively president for one day. It's even written on his tombstone, though legally, it was not true.