white house, n.Trivia

The White House was originally called the President's Palace. It became The White House in 1901.

Woodrow Wilson had sheep graze on the White House lawn to save money for the war effort

Warren G. Harding once lost the White House to China in a poker game

Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing.

John Adams was the first president to live in the White House.

Theodore Roosevelt’s kids had a pet bear, badger, and hyena in the White House

The White House has 35 bathrooms.

John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator (given to him by a French general) which he kept in one of the White House bathtubs