他们不仅是美利坚合众国的领导者，他们多才多艺，独一无二，有时甚至十分怪异。

Not only were these men leaders of the United States, they were multitalented, unique, and sometimes even downright quirky.

对于他们在美国历史上的贡献我们都耳熟能详。但是下面这些事你知道吗？

We've heard a lot about their contribution to United States history. But would you have guessed the following?

1. 美国第6任总统约翰-昆西-亚当斯天热的时候习惯黎明前到波托马克河裸泳。

1. In warm weather, 6th president of the United States John Quincy Adams customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

2. 美国第9任总统威廉-亨利-哈里森的就职演说是美国历任总统中最长的，

2. 9th U.S. president William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest inauguration speech ever.

而就职典礼当天天气非常寒冷，哈里森总统因此得了感冒并很快发展为肺炎，在其总统任期刚满一个月后便去世了，成为美国历史上任期最短的总统。

The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in U.S. history.

3. 美国第10任总统约翰-泰勒是十五个孩子的父亲（为美国总统中最多的）——其中八个为其与第一个妻子所生，七个为其与第二个妻子所生。

3. John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, fathered 15 children (more than any other president)--8 by his first wife, and 7 by his second wife.

泰勒总统七十岁生日时，他第十五个孩子降生了。

Tyler was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born.

4. 美国第11任总统詹姆斯-波尔克十七岁时做胆囊手术没有用麻醉剂，而是靠白兰地支撑下来的。

4. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president of the United States James Polk survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.

5. 美国第15任总统詹姆斯-布坎南是唯一的一位未婚总统。

5. 15th U.S. president James Buchanan is the only unmarried man ever to be elected president.

他曾与人定过婚，但在婚约解除后他的未婚妻突然死去，从此他始终保持单身。

Buchanan was engaged to be married once; however, his fiance died suddenly after breaking off the engagement, and he remained a bachelor all his life.

6. 在很多图片中，美国第16任总统亚伯拉罕-林肯戴着一顶黑色大礼帽，事实上他的帽子里常常装着一些信件、票据，和便笺。

6. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat.

7. 美国第17任总统安德鲁-约翰逊从来没上过学。在他十七岁时，后来成为他太太的伊莱扎-麦克卡朵教他写作。

7. 17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson never attended school. His future wife, Eliza McCardle, taught him to write at the age of 17.

（关于约翰逊的另一件事：他的西装全是自己做的）

(Bonus fact about Andrew Johnson: He only wore suits that he custom-tailored himself.)

8. 美国第18任总统尤里西斯-辛普森-格兰特死于喉癌。在他一生中他平均每天抽二十根雪茄。

8. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer. During his life, Grant had smoked about 20 cigars per day.

9. 美国第20任总统詹姆斯-加菲尔德左右手都很灵活，他还通晓多国语言，这使他可以一只手写希腊文而同时另一只手写拉丁文。

9. Both ambidextrous and multilingual, 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other.

10. 美国第22、24任总统格罗弗-克利夫兰曾经于1893年在一艘游艇上秘密做了上颌肿瘤移除手术。

10. Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, underwent a secret operation aboard a yacht to remove his cancerous upper jaw in 1893.

11. 美国著名玩具泰迪熊的名字源自美国第26任总统西奥多-罗斯福（他的小名叫泰迪）。罗斯福有一次在密西西比州打猎时遇见一只母熊，因其身带一只幼熊仔而不忍心捕猎，将其放生。

11. The teddy bear derived from 26th U.S. president Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a bear with her cub while on a hunting trip in Mississippi.

12. 美国第27任总统威廉-塔夫脱体重达三百多磅（合136公斤），白宫专门安装了特别的超大号浴缸供他使用。

12. William Taft, 27th president of the United States, weighed more than 300 pounds and had a special oversized bathtub installed in the White House.

13. 美国第29任总统沃伦-哈丁每周要至少打两次扑克，并且至少输掉一整套白宫瓷器。

13. Warren Harding, 29th U.S. president, played poker at least twice a week, and once gambled away an entire set of White House china.

他的顾问团也陪他一起打，故得绰号“扑克内阁”。

His advisors were nicknamed the "Poker Cabinet" because they joined the president in his poker games.

14. 美国第30任总统卡尔文-柯立芝患有慢性胃病，每天晚上需要睡10到11个小时，外加午休。

14. Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, had chronic stomach pain and required 10 to 11 hours of sleep and an afternoon nap every day.

15. 美国第31任总统赫伯特-胡佛共出版了至少16本书，其中一本名为《垂钓之乐——清洗你的灵魂》。

15. Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president, published more than 16 books, including one called Fishing for Fun-And to Wash Your Soul.

16. 美国第32任总统富兰克林-罗斯福与11位前美国总统有亲缘关系。

16. 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt was related, either by blood or by marriage, to 11 former presidents.

17. 美国第33任总统哈利-S-杜鲁门的中名只有一个字母S，原因是他祖父和外祖父的名字里都有字母S。

17. The letter "S" comprises the full middle name of the 33rd president, Harry S. Truman. It represents two of his grandfathers, whose names both had "S" in them.

18. 美国第34任总统德怀特-艾森豪威尔酷爱烹调，

18. Military leader and 34th president of the U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower loved to cook;

他研制出一种蔬菜汤，其食谱长达894个词，原料中含有旱金莲的花茎。

he developed a recipe for vegetable soup that is 894 words long and includes the stems of nasturtium flowers as one of the ingredients.

19. 美国第40任总统罗纳德-里根打破了“总统20年周期死亡诅咒”，即凡在以0结尾的年份当选的总统必丧生于任上。

19. 40th president of the United States Ronald Reagan broke the so-called "20-year curse," in which every president elected in a year ending in 0 died in office.

20. 美国第43任总统乔治-沃克-布什和他的太太劳拉在仅仅认识三个月后就结婚了。

20. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, and his wife Laura got married just three months after meeting each other.