Abraham Lincoln: Not just tall in historical stature, but at 6 feet 4 inches also tall in physical stature (and, it turns out, the first bearded president). His ideal one-on-one basketball opponent would have been James Madison, who at 5 feet 4 inches was a full foot shorter than Lincoln and a mere 100 pounds to boot. AP Photo; Library of Congress Trust-buster William Taft, the 27th president, is typically reported to have weighed more than 300 pounds. His ideal sumo opponent? You guessed it: flyweight James Madison and his 100 pounds. AP Photo; Library of Congress In a case of strange presidential kin, 41st President George H.W. Bush is a distant relation of Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, and, for good measure, Winston Churchill. Of course George H.W. Bush is most closely related to the 43rd president, his son, George W. Bush. They're the second father-son presidential duo in history—the first was John Adams, father of John Quincy Adams, while William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were grandfather and grandson, respectively. Going to the second-cousin level and beyond yields many presidential relations (Teddy and Franklin were fifth cousins) but perhaps the strangest of all is that Barack Obama is a distant cousin of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Talk about an awkward family reunion. AP Photo Yes, two presidents have died inside the White House: William Henry Harrison, in 1841 from respiratory illness, and Zachary "Old Rough and Ready" Taylor in 1850 of gastroenteritis after, according to the popular story, drinking iced milk and eating cherries (or possibly cucumbers) on a hot Washington day. AP Photo (2) The only president to raise a flock of sheep on the White House lawn during his presidency, and the first president to have Ph.D., Woodrow Wilson is also the only president buried in Washington, D.C., proper, at the Washington National Cathedral. AP Photo Not quite as tricky a question as it seems—no, so far no presidents have disowned America after holding the nation's highest office. But John Tyler was a citizen of the Southern Confederacy when he died in January 1862. AP Photo For those who believe in the supernatural, yes. Lincoln haunts his eponymous bedroom, Andrew Jackson has been sighted in the Rose Bedroom, William Henry Harrison hangs out in the attic, Abigail Adams folds the laundry, and Dolley Madison gets upset when the White House gardens are altered. White House; AP Photo Well that depends on how the question is asked. The first sitting president to fly in an airplane was FDR in 1943, but Theodore Roosevelt, a year removed from the presidency, flew in a Wright biplane in 1910. AP Photo (2) No wonder a war hero of the first major war to use technologically advanced airplanes is also the first president to hold a pilot's license. Dwight Eisenhower was authorized to fly solo in November 1939. AP Photo FDR claimed another first when he spoke on television at the World's Fair in New York in April 1939. Warren G. Harding gave a speech during the dedication of the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore that was broadcast on radio station WEAR. AP Photo (2) Health-care debates aside, one might think that with the rise of nearly comprehensive health care in the 20th century, and given the wealthy pedigree from which presidents are usually reared, that the first president born in a hospital might have happened some time ago. Nope. No president had been born in a hospital until Jimmy Carter took office in 1977. AP Photo More than a decade after Thomas Edison secured a patent for his electric lamp, Benjamin Harrison showcased electric lighting in the White House in September 1891 during a reception for physicians and surgeons. Nineteen-year-old Ike Hoover, who installed the lights, was hired full-time as the White House electrician and worked at the White House for 42 years until he died in 1933 with the title of chief usher. AP Photo Also Benjamin Harrison, in 1889. Because this was before electricity was brought to the White House, the tree was adorned with candles. AP Photo The House of Representatives tossed the presidency John Quincy Adams' way in 1824, even though he lost the popular and electoral votes. Rutherford B. Hayes won the electoral college by one vote in 1876, despite losing the popular vote to Samuel J. Tilden. Ditto for Benjamin Harrison over incumbent Grover Cleveland in 1888, though Harrison won the Electoral College by more than 60 votes. Fast forward more than a century to the controversial 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore, in which the Supreme Court ultimately awarded Florida's electoral votes, and the presidency, to Bush, who lost the popular contest by more than half a million votes. AP Photo (2) Not Richard Nixon—he resigned in 1974 before impeachment proceedings could begin. Andrew Johnson was impeached in February 1868, accused by the House of Representatives of violating the Tenure of Office Act, but the Senate acquitted him by a single vote. The second president to stand trial for impeachment was Bill Clinton, in late 1998 and early 1999, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. He also was acquitted. AP Photo (2) None. When James Polk's term ended at noon on March 4, 1849, Zachary Taylor refused to take the oath until the next day, because the 4th was a Sunday, the Sabbath. So who was president during those hours? A senator from Missouri named David Rice Atchison was president pro tempore of the Senate, and ostensibly next in line for succession. He is often considered the 24-hour president, but as the crack researchers at Snopes.com point out, among a slew of other evidence, the 30th Congress ended on March 3, with no provision to have the pro tempore title carry over to the next Congress. So on March 4 there was no president pro tempore. Atchison, for the record, spent most of the day napping. Mathew Brady Completely. Seven men held the title "President of the United States in Congress Assembled" under the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution. The first president elected to a yearlong term was Maryland merchant John Hanson. The president of the Continental Congress was mostly a ceremonial position. Peyton Randolph of Virginia was the first president of the Continental Congress in 1774, but there was no fixed term of office. Since 1975 the vice president has lived in a 33-room mansion, painted white, more than 2 1/2 miles northwest of the White House. Called The Admiral's House, it was commandeered from the Navy, which had used it to house families of Navy higher-ups. AP Photo After reaching the pinnacle of the Executive Branch, William Howard Taft wasn't satisfied. Already a respected lawman and jurist, Taft became the 10th chief justice in 1921 and served for nine years. AP Photo When George W. Bush took office, the presidential salary was doubled from $200,000 to $400,000, where it stands today. The president also receives a $191,300-a-year pension, but Bill Clinton was the last president to receive Secret Service protection for life. AP Photo We saved perhaps the most curious question for last, and we're not sure it served any purpose other than a neat parlor trick, but James Garfield could write a letter discussing the significance of the Iliad with one hand and then write a letter on the downfall of Julius Caesar with the other hand. AP Photo