Abraham Lincoln's assassinator, John Wilkes Booth timed the gunshot to align with a particularly humorous line in the play in the hope that the laughter of the audience would help mask its sound.
Abraham Lincoln grew a beard on the advice of an 11-year old girl who wrote: “You would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin.”
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated only four days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee.
Abraham Lincoln was a champion wrestler and licensed bartender.


Abraham Lincoln was assassinated only four days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln is great, not because he once lived in a cabin, but because he got out of it.
Abraham Lincoln is a filthy storyteller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest of U.S. Presidents at 6'4"
Abraham Lincoln is the leanest, lankest, most ungainly mass of legs and arms and hatchet face ever strung on a single frame. He has most unwarrantably abused the privilege, which all politicians have, of being ugly.
Abraham Lincoln is a man whose mind works in the right directions but seldom works clearly and cleanly. His bread is of unbolted flour, and much straw, too, mixes in the bran, and sometimes gravel stones.