1. Warren Harding - The 29th President really liked to gamble, although it seems he wasn't very good at it. In one poker game, he bet the White House china collection and lost it all in one hand.
2. Ford - In the 1940's Gerald Ford did a bit of modeling and even posed on the cover of "Cosmopolitan." His wife Betty was also a dancer and fashion model, who signed with the John Robert Powers modeling firm to finance her dance education.
3. Grant - The 18th President Of The United States was given a $20 speeding ticket for riding his horse too fast down a Washington street.
4. Garfield - Not only was he the first president to be both righty and lefty, but it was said he could write a sentence in Latin with one hand and write it in Greek with the other hand.
5. Taft - The 27th President was a stately fellow, weighing in at over 300 lbs, so it's easy to believe he became stuck in one of the White House bathtubs (things were a lot smaller back then). He eventually had an oversize bathtub installed.
6. John Quincy Adams - The President was known for his early morning dips in D.C.'s main waterway, always in the nude. It's entirely possible that some unlucky commuters possibly saw Adams' "Johnson".
7. Jefferson - When Lewis and Clark were exploring the West, two young bear cubs were sent East to President Jefferson. He kept the bears in a cage on the White House lawn and occasionally went on walks with them. Other strange presidential pets include: alligator (John Quincy Adams), elephant (James Buchanan), and zebra (Teddy Roosevelt).
8. Van Buren - Supposedly, President Van Buren coined one of the most commonly used phrases to date: "OK", or "Okay". Van Buren was from Kinderhook, NY which was also called "Old Kinderhook". His support groups came to be known as "O.K. Clubs" and the term OK came to mean "all right".
9. Coolidge - Calvin Coolidge was a strange guy. Not only did he sleep quite a lot - over 10 hours a day - but had a morning ritual where he enjoyed having Vaseline rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed. He also had a mechanical horse installed in the White House so he could practice his horseback riding skills.
10. Arthur - Not only was Chester A. Arthur a very sharp dresser (he owned over 80 pairs of pants), but he often took late night strolls around D.C. with friends, not returning home until 3 or 4 in the morning.
11. Jefferson - In addition to inventing a rotating book holder that folded into a box (below), he also invented/improved on the inventions of the dumbwaiter, the polygraph (for recording), a pasta maker, the swivel chair, the sundial, and the pedometer.
12. Obama - President Obama collects "Spiderman" and "Conan The Barbarian" comic books.
13. Lincoln - When Abe Lincoln moved to New Salem, Illinois in 1831, he met a rowdy bunch called The Clarence Grove Boys. Their leader, Jack Armstrong, challenged Lincoln to a wrestling match outside of Denton Offutt's store, where Lincoln was a clerk, and townspeople gathered to watch and wager on it. Lincoln won the match and Jack's respect, and the two became best friends.