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Unexpected facts about America’s past presidents you probably didn’t know
Katie McGonagle
12 November 2024
Amazing facts about American presidents
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Which president turned down an offer to play for the Green Bay Packers? Who set a world record for the most handshakes in one day? And why do not one but two US presidents have the same made-up initial instead of a middle name? If only school history lessons had included these fascinating facts about America’s past presidents.
Click or scroll through the gallery to discover amazing facts about past occupants of the White House...
Ulysses S Grant was fined for speeding – on a horse
Speeding tickets might seem a modern invention, but 19th-century President Ulysses S Grant was pulled over and fined $20 for going too fast – not by car, but in his horse and buggy. A 1908 news report, quoting retired police officer William West, revealed the president was stopped in 1872 for racing his friends along Washington DC's 13th Street on the way to the horse track. While there are no contemporary reports of the incident, there is also evidence of Grant being arrested for speeding in 1866.
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The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London, England, on June 6, 1844, in response to unhealthy social conditions arising in the big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850). Growth of the railroads and centralization of commerce and industry brought many rural young men who needed jobs into cities like London. They worked 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Far from home and family, these young men often lived at the workplace. They slept crowded into rooms over the company's shop, a location thought to be safer than London's tenements and streets. Outside the shop things were bad -- open sewers, pickpockets, thugs, beggars, drunks, lovers for hire and abandoned children running wild by the thousands.
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George Williams, born on a farm in 1821, came to London 20 years later as a sales assistant in a draper's shop, a forerunner of today's department store. He and a group of fellow drapers organized the first YMCA to substitute Bible study and prayer for life on the streets. By 1851 there were 24 Ys in Great Britain, with a combined membership of 2,700. That same year the Y arrived in North America: It was established in Montreal on
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