5 THINGS ABOUT PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN YOU DIDN'T KNOW!

1. Abraham Lincoln name is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame

President Lincoln’s name wasn't quite a WWE wrestler but courtesy of his long arms as a young lad, he lost just a single match in 300 matches he took part in. He even once challenged onlookers to try him: “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” These achievements earned him a top place in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

2. There was once a futile effort by grave robbers to make off with Abraham Lincoln’s Corpse

In the year 1876, protection came to Abraham Lincoln’s way by Secret Service. If only it would have come earlier! Why? A mob of fraudsters who hailed from Chicago wanted to snatch his body from its tomb. Its only protection was a single padlock’s, anyway. That was in Oak Ridge Cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois state. Their aim was to hold the corpse and seek a $200,000 ransom as well as secure a release of the mob’s best fraudster from prison. Secret Service intervened and the body was moved to an unmarked grave and was secured within steel cage.

3. Abraham Lincoln goes down in History as the only president to have secured a patent

After Benjamin Franklin noted a need to invent a way to unload steamboats, which ran ashore on low shoals, Lincoln came to his rescue. He had an innate love for machines and so he designed a way of aiding vessels stay afloat, while navigating shallow waters. This he did by applying empty metal air compartments to the sides of boats and thus he got a Patent Number 6,469 in the year 1849 for the innovation.

4. Poisoned Milk killed President Lincoln’s mother   

Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy, passed on while he was 9. Her cause of death was an unknown sickness connected to milk consumption, which was a major outbreak in Southern Indiana at the time. This was later to be discovered to be an ailment emanating from drinking milk from cows that had fed on lethal white snakeroot.   

5. Abraham Lincoln never slept in the popular Lincoln’s Bedroom

While he was president of the US, he used the current Lincoln Bedroom as a mere personal office. There, he would meet members of the Cabinet as well as sign documents, one of which is the Emancipation Proclamation.