20 Mind-Blowing Facts About American Presidents

7. Adams And Hoover Both Had A Pet Alligator

John Quincy Adams was a total baller. Apparently he was such a player during his time in office that people genuinely spread rumours that he was a pimp €“ the actual kind, like 50 Cent claimed to be, as opposed to the figurative kind, which it's still not totally proven 50 Cent is €“ and he stole a bit of Shakespeare€™s chair when he and Jefferson visited the playwright's home. His coolest trait absolutely had to have been his pet alligator, though, given to him by General Marquis de Lafayette of France, agyer which it lived in the bathtub of the White House's East Room. Hoover's son, meanwhile, had a couple of 'gators that used to wander the grounds.
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