• The Pentagon building has 685 water fountains.
• The White House has 34 bathrooms.
• George Washington died while taking his own pulse.
• First Lady Bess Truman was the first to have air conditioning installed in the White House.
• President Calvin Coolidge installed an electric horse in his White House bedroom and rode it regularly.
• Abraham Lincoln moved his lips while reading.
• Richard Nixon is a descendent of England's King Edward III.
• Every week, the President of the United States receives 140,000 letters.
• No only child has become President of the United States.
• By the time George Washington became president, he had only one tooth left, -- a lower right bicuspid
• John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower would customarily wear three coats of clear nail polish.
• How many states are named after a president? Just one: Washington.
• George Washington refused to shake hands, preferring to bow instead.
• Thomas Jefferson died bankrupt.
• Harry S. Truman had a bowling alley installed in the basement of the White House.
• What does the number 66 have to do with the first five presidents? That's the age at which Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe left office.
• The first U.S. President to drive a car was Warren G. Harding.
• 325 pound William Howard Taft was the biggest president (so big he once got stuck in the White House bathtub) When he was governor-general of the Philippines, he sent the following cable to Secretary of War Elihu Root: "TOOK LONG HORSEBACK RIDE TODAY, FEELING FINE." Root responded in kind: "HOW IS THE HORSE?"

There are also some real Gov't pages to go.

• White House
• Washington DC.

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