Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county in Illinois. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one.
James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
U.S. President James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and simultaneously write Latin with the other.
In 2013, North Korea’s president killed his own uncle by throwing him naked into a cage with 120 starving dogs.
In 1940, 12-year-old boy Fidel Castro wrote a letter to President F. Roosevelt to request a $10 bill because he had never seen one before.
When Hitler informed the Czech president of the imminent invasion of his country, he suffered a heart attack and had to be kept awake to sign his surrender.
In 2012, a Somali Islamist militant group offered a bounty of 10 camels for President Obama and 2 for information on Hillary Clinton.
U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant’s parents refused to attend his wedding because his fiance’s family owned slaves.
In 2008, a Catholic Bishop resigned to become Paraguay’s President. He was later found to be the father of at least two children.