Presidential Fun Facts (Washington - Quincy Adams)

It’s Presidents Day in the United States! We hear a lot about the Presidents and their achievements, but we rarely talk about what they were like as people. You’re about to learn that these guys weren’t stoic old gentlemen, they lived crazy insane lives! This is the first video in a series exploring the wacky, quirky, and personal parts of the lives of US Presidents. This video covers the first six Presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. Today we're going to learn which one loved to go skinny dipping in the river by the White House, which one has a foreign capital named after him, which one fell in love with his best friend's wife, and many, many more! Bibliography Lives of the Presidents – Fame, Shame, and What the Neighbors Thought by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt Washington: https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-little-known-facts https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/facts/washington-stories/passion-and-integrity-the-loves-of-george-washington/ https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/sally-fairfax/ https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-06-02-0013 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/13/donald-trump-george-washington-net-worth-us-presidents/39011559/ Adams: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-john-adams https://www.whitehousehistory.org/building-the-white-house https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-households-of-john-adams https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/the-households-of-john-adams-photo-4 Jefferson: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-thomas-jefferson/2011/04/12/AGGLlWsH_story.html https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/languages-jefferson-spoke-or-read https://interestingengineering.com/7-things-you-wont-believe-thomas-jefferson-invented https://www.sporcle.com/blog/2020/02/facts-about-thomas-jefferson/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_presidents_of_the_United_States Madison: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-james-madison John Quincy Adams: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502637/9-fascinating-facts-about-john-quincy-adams https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Quincy-Adams Images Federalist Symbol By Raymond1922A - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25466582 Democratic-Republican Cockade By Angelus - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15935450 Great Clock https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/a-day-in-the-life-of-jefferson/museum-in-the-entrance-of-the-house/the-great-clock/ Mastodon Skeleton By Ryan Somma - Mammut americanum, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6319303 Jefferson Quran https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-thomas-jefferson-owned-qur-1-180967997/ Liberia Map By Imag source: Martin23230;* Derivative work: by Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior talk! + — Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior fala! +(contact here) - File:Africa (orthographic projection).svg, Martin23230, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15538149 Alligator By Ianaré Sévi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6931045 Amistad Memorial By DanTD - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5850034 Location of Sierra Leone By Marcos Elias de Oliveira Júnior - Own work This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15557287 Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Rhinoceros" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Fig Leaf Rag by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3750-fig-leaf-rag License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Plucky Daisy by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4226-plucky-daisy License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license All other images are public domain or the property of Learnabit