Dia de los Presidentes: Fun Facts (no Balderdash here!)

So having hung with Barack in the desert and learning about Millard on the old man show, I thought I'd put in a holiday blog on the dead presidents (except for George H.W. Bush):

• The Federal holiday is officially just Washington's birthday.
• John Quincy Adams and Herbert Hoover both had pet alligators, Calvin Coolidge had two lions, a wallaby, and a pygmy hippopotamus (among others), while Theodore Roosevelt kept a badger called Josiah who used to bite people.  John Adams named his dog "Satan."
• Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair.
• Fillmore, the bigot, married his teacher.
• Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House. However, he was so scared of getting electrocuted that he would have his staff press the switches.
• William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good luck charm. While greeting a line of people in 1901, he gave the flower to a little girl. Seconds later, he was shot by an assassin, and died eight days later.
• George H. W. Bush vomited on Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa at a banquet in 1992.
• James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were once arrested together for taking a carriage ride in Vermont on a Sunday, which violated state laws.