One bizarre fact about every US president (Part two)
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Everyone knows Andrew loved to duel
Not many people know he owed a parrot that he trained to be so foul mouthed that they had to remove it from his funeral cause to wouldn't stop shouting obscenities
Parrot: I am so glad that stupid piece of #### ######### ########### ###### ## #### ####### ###### ###### ####### ###### is gone
this is funny for some reason
This is gold. I wonder what some of the things it shouted were.
He also kept a massive block of cheese in the White House until he left office, where he then let random people come in and eat away at it.
An African Grey Parrot which is one of the most intelligent animals.
Fun Fact- President Andrew Jackson carried 2 bullets from 2 different duels in his body till the day he died.
and he died of declining health which lead to heart failure, who knew that having two chunks of LEAD (musket balls, which flintlocks used, were commonly made of lead) in your body would lead to bad health
@@prestongarvey2599Andrew Jackson died at the age of 78 in 1845 that incredibly impressive for the time even for people who hadn't been shoot twice. I think it's safe to rule out lead poisoning as a cause to "declining health"
@@collincaperton671878 at that time? Yeah, ok. Dude was badass enough to actually just die of old age even with everything he went through. Respect
he was a fucked monster, but he was absolutely a badass one
@@shronkler1994 true, hes probably just as manly and tough as good ol' Teddy Roosevelt.
John Tyler was right to send those letters back. By calling him acting president, they were trying to diminish his authority.
Pretty sure that that was a legitimate thing to do at the time because the rules of succession weren't formalised yet
@@anna-flora999I learned something new today. Thank you
That's the legitamate legal term for it. They aren't president, they're acting president. They didn't get elected, they don't deserve respect. Granted, those who were elected don't deserve respect either, but still.
@@anna-flora999yes but Tyler had tried running for president before and lost several times
@@jacksonglass3447 so he was a whiny little bitch.
Glad to see this isn't a new tradition ^^
Fun fact, andrew jackson also beat someone with a cane for attempting to kill him 😂
Attempting to kill I’m twice and then had a statue erected where it halpened
The guy shot the first gun it didn't work. Then he pulled out another gun it failed too. Then Andrew Jackson chased him and hit him with his cane
And the reason why he wasn't killed is fucking hilarious. His assassin's gun jammed, then he pulled out a second one and it jammed as well. So Jackson started beating the shit out of him until folk hero Davey Crockett pulled him off the assassin. Jackson then had a statue of himself placed in the exact spot where it happened for extra pettiness. And if you thought the guns jamming was weird, they later tested both pistols and during testing they fired. The assassin just had some extremely shitty luck.
@@thatdude2508 nah. The guns knew better than to fire at Mad Jackson XD
@@thatdude2508damn, two genocidal maniacs could have been killed in one go but god said no😔
Polk literally comes in, wins a war, doubles the size of the country, doesn't run for re-election and promptly dies.
after the American mexican war Polk actually wanted to annex MORE of Mexico (the entire northern part and some coastal islands I believe) but before he could the treaty was signed
Poor Mexico
Another fun fact: Martin Van Buren is the only president who’s first language wasn’t English. His first language was Dutch.
So is he the only non American, American president?
Edit: i sounded really dumb there.
@@BadringerGronger He was American, he just didn’t speak English as his first language. He grew in a Dutch speaking area of the US at the time.
He was also the first president to be born a US citizen
@@damagedone115which is really ironic
this comment & all the replies are amazing for a non-american like me 😂
The girls face when that president died from pneumonia💀
I'm pretty sure that was either his wife or daughter
Kid
Ok
@@cheese-nipples-1728ok
She's like "🤦♀️"
Andrew Jackson dying with that 100 K/D ratio is wild💀
Duels weren't meant for killing, but rather just to intimidate an opponent
@@davidmagann1805 the whole point of duels is to kill the opponent💀
@@jasonpark1556 Maybe in movies, but in reality they just served as a form to restore honor by demonstrating that they were willing to risk their lives. There were always witnesses on either side of a duel to ensure that if someone were to actually shoot someone, they would retaliate and likely shoot back.
Most duels didn’t end in either side dying, though some did.
@@davidmagann1805Well, it was probably still a positive KDR regardless
during a speech, andrew jackson pulled out a bullet (which was from one of his duels) without anesthesia and gave the bullet to one of his duelers and said, "I believe this is yours"
What a chad, Lmao
How?? 😭
@@justanothermortal1373idk man, these presidents are built different back in the days lmao 😭
@@B0R3D_2.O I am both terrified and in awe
@@justanothermortal1373The unrelenting will of a orphan turned president
In highschool we had to give a 10 minute presentation on a president. I got given William Henry Harrison. Most of the presentation was his early life. It ended with "he then became president and died shortly after"
😂
that must have sucked to get him
the entire slideshow:
so anyways WHH became president and fucking died the end of
John Tyler, who was the 10th president, has a 94 year old living grandson
*had.
Andrew Jackson often got into duels because of his wife. Anyone who bad mouthed his wife was done for-
William Harrison died because of contaminated drinking water, that's also how Zachary Taylor (the 12th president) died
Out of all facts you chose the duel one for Jackson. How about that one time he didn't let go of his wife when she died in hopes she would wake up and he had to be physically pulled away from her
Or the time someone attempted to assassinate him and he attacked him with his cane and had to be pulled off of him.
@@socialhermit7144 and how the assassin has w guns, both of which jammed when he tried to shoot him
Didn't he rattle when he walked because of just how many balls were lodged in his poor frame from dueling?
@@corbinwoodall5493 yes
Or what about the fact that he caused the brutal and inhumane deaths of over 10 thousand Native Americans
cant wait for Jimmy Carter’s fact
I swear if you put anything other than swimming in a nuclear reactor im gonna-
He was also attacked by a giant swimming rabbit
@@dragonvlogssayshifor him, its a giant swimming rabbit, for us it's just average size US rabbit
Carter wasn’t really attacked by the rabbit. It just persisted in pestering his boat as he kept shooing it away with the oar. The president and the others present were chuckling the whole time.
Jimmy Carter is also the only president to have reported seeing a UFO
Only modern pacifist president
John Tyler has a living grandson.
I love this fact. It’s insane how generations can be so vastly different.
That illustration of Polk at the end is really quite beautiful
Damn James k polk is a man of his word. He said he would do one term and he did so even knowing it would kill him.
Fun fact: Andrew Johnson once was dueling for the hand of his girlfriend. She was the one he was dueling with…. He won
I would imagine
Turns out that Harrison's death was more likely due to public sewage safety not being up to code
And people were thinking he had pneumonia, so he didnt had a chance
English was Van Buren's second language
In case you know i knew know the englishman the second world war
Martin Van Buren was also the only president to not speak English as a first language, he spoke Dutch.
Fun fact: Martin Van Buren was the only USA president who didn’t have English as a first language. His first language was Dutch.
Andrew Jackson wanted all the smoke 💀
Andrew Jackson be doing 360 no scopes
Jackson had that dog in him. _💀_
He was cooking all the opps💀
The William Henry Harrison cause of death may have been a contributing factor, but that didn’t lead to him catch pneumonia. Thank the improved waterworks system and modern medicine for why most of us aren’t dying from pneumonia today.
I'm relayed to him
Ooh, that’s cool :D
*has a minor disagreement with someone*
Andrew: *takes a shot of whiskey and drops a gun at the table* aight bitch, you and me outside now, we ending this
Another fun fact, Tyler wanted to be known for something so he rushed to get Texas annexed before Polk took office (he had ran on annexing Texas)
Am I the only one who heard “Andrew Jackson was a maniac who loved to juul”?
There should absolutely be a musical about William Henry Harrison, the man whose inauguration speech killed him
God wanted to shut his ass up cause he ain't sitting through another speech.
More about Harrison:
The reason he had such a long speech was because of his opponents mocking him for his age. (He was in his 60s)
His inaugural speech was over 2 hours long, in the freezing wind and without a coat. He was trying to prove everyone wrong.
30 days later he died of pneumonia from it.
And today, the president already an 80years old and still great to sniff girls' hair. 😂😂😂
There were rumors that Harrison had poor health and wouldn’t last the presidency and so Harrison as a response gave the longest speech in the cold rain to show he was strong but ended up getting pneumonia and dying from the speech that intended to prove he was strong
Andrew Jackson was definately playing arsenal in real life
Andrew Jackson when he hears about Cassius M Clay: this man is now my son
William Henry Harrison: Dying from pneumonia in bed
Also William Henry Harrison: 😌
What’s even funnier about William Henry Harrison is that they kept calling him old and thought he was too frail and a pussy to last the presidency so he had the long speech to try to prove them wrong.
Lol, god was like "I ain't reading allat" and gave him pneumonia.
Harrison fr got smited for yapping too much 💀💀💀
But was Polk a bigger workaholic than FDR?
John Tyler also has a living grandson
Give a shout out to Hannah she deserves better lol😂
Jackson was a badass.
Where is part 3?
Andrew Jackson ❤❤❤❤
That behind the back shot was epic 😂😂😂😂
Polk didnt lose office. he stated before he ran that he would serve only 1 term
I heard that Joe shit his pants when he was visiting the Pope.
Source: trust me bro I definitely heard it from someone
False rumor
Grover Cleveland have left the chat
Ty for 7
bro he's the 22nd ad 24th president this series goes in order
@@paullol7852😂
What's the joke tho
@@Silly_tacopathetic
the guy with the shortest presidential term got karma for the longest presidential speech
Another interesting thing about Van Buren is that when he toured the country, some people in Indiana who were unsatisfied with how the roads were being handled made the ride as miserable for him as possible. There was one especially large rock in the road that knocked over his carriage, causing him to fix the roads. A school nearby was then named after him, since the one he fell in front of already had a name
"Fin" at the end sounds like you're from Europe, particularly the former Roman empire
FYI Polk left office, he didn’t run for re-election.
Cold weather doesn’t cause illness, germs do. He picked up a bacterial or viral infection, likely at his Inauguration, that progressed into the Pneumonia that killed him
Cold weather does massively increase the chances of getting sick
Which is why we often blame the cold
That’s kinda splitting hairs, being out in the cold without proper wear is generally just a bad idea overall. It’s much more likely it was bad water though
@@frostyfrenchtoastthat's exactly it! It was also raining (or at least drizzling) that day, and he refused to wear a jacket because he wanted Americans to see him as a "tough guy" president. Not only that, but medicine for treating pneumonia wasn't around, so catching it had a bigger chance of killing you than now, where your average person (of a major country) is not malnourished and is well clothed.
Cold weather lowers your immune system though, making you more susceptible to viral or bacterial infections
It’s been proven than he had pneumonia for weeks before the inauguration. Had nothing to do with the speech length or the cold.
Andrew Jackson for real tryharding
Imagine having sent your letter to John Tyler and 3 months later getting feedback on how he is just "the president". Only kids from the 1830s would remember.
Here’s another fun fact about Andrew Jackson : He had a pet parrot and he taught him how to say bad words and the parrot had to be removed from his funereal because he wouldn’t stop swearing and he was making everybody uncomfortable
About Martin Van Buren:
1. He is the first president to be born a U.S citizen. All presidents before him & one after him (Harrison) were born as british subjects.
2. His native tongue was dutch, he spoke english as second language
3. Van Buren's lifespan stretches from the revolutionary war to the civil war (1782-1862).
William Henry Harrison still lasted longer than I do 😭
Andrew Jackson had that Dawg in him
James K Polk didn’t lose office. He chose not to seek reelection after his first term.
:39 I have never noticed the similarity of Polk and Mel Gibson till this!
Very cool that you gave credit to your source! I NEVER see that in YT shorts! Good on you 😊
Andrew Jackson be hitting 360 no scopes
The cold weather thing was a myth
Andrew Garfield is gonna be awesome
I ever knew that a cat became US President
Did he like lasagna?
I don't recall Spiderman getting elected president
Jackson shaked like a bag of marbles
Andrew Jackson Better Prepare Once He Duels Goku.
A great one is Garfield, can’t wait for that one
Andrew Jackson actually had so many bullets in him from all that duelling that when he walked, he RATTLED.
James K Polk looks like a vampire
Andrew Jackson, when asked if he had any regrets during his presidency, said his only one was not shooting John Calhoun… who was his vice president.
Well, I wouldn't mention Van Buren's wife in my autobiography either
James K. Polk died from cholera from a cholera outbreak in Tennessee it had nothing to do with him being a workaholic (which he was)
Good short :D
What do you do if u duel the president? You win you die u lose u die ?
Good point lol
James K Polk is a big reason our country is as big as it is today.
I challenge you to a duel why did you slap me with a glove
Bro Andrew Jackson was cosplaying One Piece 💀
Fun fact. John Tyler's grandson is still alive today
John Tyler was born in 1790
Jackson must have had an insane K/D ratio
Hannah Van Buren died before her husband's presidency, age 35. The ancillary First Lady was Hannah's sister, who looked like a bloke.
the barney music tho
Martin Van Buren was also the first president to be born in the US, as well as the only one who didn't speak English as his first language.
What did the presidents typically do after leaving office back then?
Cold weather does not cause colds. Harrison was an old man (68) who contracted a bacteria from the White House water supply which had become contaminated. His first doctor bled him and caused deliberate blistering as was understood to be effective, but we know now were used inappropriately. It is also possible based on his symptoms that he had either an appendicitis attack or a bowel rupture.
I need a math person to tell me what percentage of William Henry Harrison’s term was his inauguration speech
I looked it up. His speech was nearly 2 hours.
31 days = 744 hours
(2 / 744) * 100 = 0.27% (edit: fixed error)
Yeah sadly doesn't seem a significant proportion when it's put like that.
@@J4hk3 it may only be 0.02% but thank you so much!
@@Supernova2464 Actually scratch that. It's a little better than that. It's 0.2%, 0.27% to be more precise.
@@J4hk3 lol, thanks :D
People also called john tyler
"His accedency"
Was that Polk or Mel Gibson? Doppelganger
Andrew Jackson and his duels is the most classic part of American history
WH Harrison got sick like 3 weeks after his inauguration
I think we should bring back dueling im getting tired of career politicians air the duels on paypervew
Vincennes, Indiana still has William Henry Harrison's home up and running. You can take a tour of his mansion.
0:18 🗿 (#3)
Andrew Jackson, the general who helped cripple his own army lol. So many duels.
We need to bring back dueling gaurntee it would knock down a shit ton of gun crime
In 3rd grade I had to research William Henry Harrison. It was so easy
the "duels" hardly used any black powder ..v unlikely to die if even nailed
Is it just me or James Knox Polk looks like Antione Greizmann
Music i heard: "Barney Theme Tune"
(IDK?!!!)
What they all have in common: scammed us for them to have a better life.
part 3!
The 100 duels thing for Andrew Jackson is a myth. There’s three documented duels he took part in