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Master of Strange habits of US presidents
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Riding Thunderbolt inside his dressing room, An electric wooden horse to chase away the gloom.
hank Warren G. Harding hosted twice-weekly poker games and once gambled away White House china.
hank Match bizarre habits to each leader to discover the weirdest quirks of US presidents.
Hoover's medicine ball: President Herbert Hoover played a game called 'Hooverball' every morning at 7:00 AM, throwing a heavy medicine ball over a net to stay fit.
The act of swimming in the nude. President John Quincy Adams famously practiced this routine at dawn in the Potomac River.
Which president loved golf so much that he had a putting green installed on the White House lawn in 1954?
What did President Warren G. Harding reportedly lose during one of his high-stakes White House poker games?
Which president was an obsessive bowler who had a one-lane bowling alley built in the basement of the White House in 1969?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt suddenly stop boxing while serving as president in the White House?
Before his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was an elite competitor in which sport, losing only one of about 300 matches?
Which president was an accomplished classical pianist who played the piano on national television during his presidency?
What was the name of the sport invented by a White House physician to keep Herbert Hoover fit, involving a heavy medicine ball?