Probably my favorite historical fact, next to French Dictator Napoleon Bonaparte building a brick wall in his bedroom to divorce his wife, is President Taft getting stuck in a bathtub. Mistakenly, I’ve been thinking for a while now it was President Garfield who was stuck. But rather, it was President Taft.
So, in honor of President Taft getting stuck in a bathtub, here are some other fun facts you might not know about President Taft:
- President Taft was the heaviest president ever. Weighing over 330 lbs. and at one point, close to 350 (hence explaining why he got stuck in a bathtub).
- His new bathtub was over 7′ long and 41 inches wide.
- He was the first president to own a car.
- First president to throw out the first pitch on opening day in baseball.
- President Taft loved milk. In fact, he loved it so much that he had brought in his own cow to the White House. The name of the cow? Mooly Wolly. She was later replaced by another cow named Paulin. They were the last cows to hang out at the White House.
- He is the first and only former President to be elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- His father co-founded the Skulls and Bones society at Yale, in which he and other various other presidents were a part of.
And so, there you go. More about President Taft than you ever knew before.
