Yes, today is Presidents Day, and you know what that means. It's time to go out and buy some patio furniture! But first, take advantage of our huge inventory of useless presidential material from the book "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Presidency":

• All U.S. presidents have worn glasses.
  
• James K. Polk had a mullet.
  
• Of all the presidents, Warren G. Harding had the biggest feet. He wore size 14 shoes.
  
• George Washington loved cream of peanut soup.
  
• James Madison was the first president to wear long trousers. (Previous presidents wore knee breeches.)
  
• John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when informed that he had become president.
  
• Ronald Reagan saved 77 people when he worked as a lifeguard.
  
• Calvin Coolidge liked having his head rubbed while he ate breakfast in bed.
  
• Warren G. Harding once gambled away an entire set of White House china.
  
• Richard Nixon once worked at the Wheel of Fortune game booth at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo.
  
• Thomas Jefferson's favorite vegetable was the pea.
  
• John F. Kennedy's nickname at Choate prep school was Rat Face.
  
• The first asteroid named after a president was Hooveria.
  
• During the 1790s, the White House lavatory consisted of an outdoor wooden privy.
  
• Bill Clinton usually wears briefs rather than boxers.
  
• The Bushes are related to Benedict Arnold, Marilyn Monroe and Winston Churchill.
  
• George Washington was an enthusiastic spelunker.
  
• Chester A. Arthur owned over 80 pairs of pants

Posted by: Jonathan Singer / 5:39 PM | Basie! Home