I’m Mr. Beat, ok? Hey, speaking of ok, did you
know that the 8th President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was a big reason why we say ok? It’s true, buttercup. You see, one of Van
Buren’s nicknames was “Old Kinderhook.” Ya know…because he was from Kinderhook, New
York…and he was…uh…old. Anyway, in 1840, when Van Buren sought a second term as President, his
supporters formed “Old Kinderhook” clubs, or “OK Clubs” for short. OK Club members began regularly
using the term “ok.” While they didn’t invent the word….it actually was invented the year before in
a Boston newspaper…they definitely popularized it. That was a fun fact, eh? And yeah, this is
probably not breaking news to you, but I love presidential facts. Heck, I even carry my Facts
and Fun About the Presidents book around with me everywhere I go in case need to inform my friends
about random facts about American Presidents. Yeah they love it. Anyway, due to this, I thought it’d be fun to
make an Iceberg Chart of presidential facts. Clone: Woah woah woah, what’s an Iceberg Chart? Ok boomer. Clone: Look I know what an Iceberg Chart is, but you might want to explain what
it is to all the normies out there You mean the folks who actually
touch grass once in awhile? Clone: Yeah Alright, fine. It’s a meme that blew up a couple years ago, which is why I am just now all into it.
I’m usually two years behind trends, ok? The iceberg image is supposed to represent
ALL knowledge about a subject. Iceberg Charts are broken into tiers to categorize that knowledge.
The iceberg is a metaphor. As you likely know, most of the mass of icebergs are hidden under
the surface of the water. So the metaphor is, there is a HUGE hidden depth of knowledge
for any given subject. And indeed, since most people know very little about a lot, and a
lot about a little, most of our knowledge about most subjects is up here. However, these, lower
tiers below the surface are examples of stuff that only experts on a subject know about. The
deeper the tier, the more obscure the knowledge. Did I explain it well enough? Clone: I guess. You’re kind of
mediocre at explaining stuff. You might want to get a new job. (walks off) Dang, that was harsh Matt. (meme) Anyway, I made an Iceberg Presidential Facts Chart.
And so did Drew Durnil! The famous YouTuber, who, according to Wikitubia, has
hair that looks like a paintbrush. We recently revealed our Iceberg
Presidential Facts Charts to each other to get our reactions.
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for sponsoring this video. Ok, so let’s go all the way back
to the year 2023, and revisit when Drew and I first shared our Iceberg
Presidential Facts Charts to each other. It was good times.
So we both independently made an iceberg chart and we chose presidential
facts that we dug up I will say I actually have this book here from my childhood I literally got
this in the third grade and I even referenced it when I made my Iceberg chart so that's what
you're competing with I'm really scared Mr B because I have a feeling that you have probably
seen all of these facts before and I just think that it's going to be mostly uh just repeated
information for you but hopefully at least for some other people they'll be like surprised
by some of the things that I was able to find that's okay I mean I'm literally known as
the president's guy on this platform actually researching for this video I found out things I
didn't know oh really I'm just hoping that I'll have one thing here that uh that you wouldn't have
heard of before so we'll see so we're starting off at the top level and because of the top level
it's got to be like really basic information right yeah just so everyone knows we only did the
sixth tier some people do like 18 here a hundred yeah okay top tier I put up there Joe Rogan
because this tier represents the average Joe ah perfect Abraham Lincoln was president during
the Civil War George Washington was the first President I mean we learned that in elementary
school and Obama was the first African-American president which most of us lived through that
so yes from mine so I still have the same sort of basic information that everybody knows but I
tried to make it a little bit um you know okay so my first one is uh Andrew Jackson is on the
20 bill so that's something that I think I think people can no uh second one is Joe Biden is the
oldest to be elected oh yeah good one yeah and then I got Abraham Lincoln was shot in a theater
yeah I'm hoping that most people would know that information already I don't know you were more
creative than I was with this top tier actually these first two tiers above the water are just
so boring you know yeah I want to make a little funner okay so the second tier okay I had uh Conan
O'Brien here because he doesn't necessarily know a lot about American presidential history from
what I can gather but he's a history fan so this is your average person who's maybe they're a fan
of history as well so they know a little bit more Conan O'Brien would know that Nixon was the only
president to resign he also would know there have been four presidents that have been assassinated
while in office Lincoln Garfield McKinley and JFK and he'd know that Franklin Roosevelt was the only
president to serve more than two terms but again boring I I no that's like if you told me really
quick the four presidents who were assassinated I don't think I would have been able to name them
like really fast I think would have taken me a second to think about it so all right so uh for my
second tier John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day not only did they die on the same
day they died on the 50th birthday of the country on July 4th 1826. pretty cool Tay Roosevelt's gave
a speech after being shot that one is could be like I'm not sure how much the public would know
about that but if you're in like the meme sphere I feel like that is always memed because of how you
know Chad Teddy Roosevelt was for getting shot and still giving a speech so I review memes about that
constantly so that's why I put it in my second tier and then finally uh FDR used a wheelchair
so I'm noticing because of the different worlds that we're in my tears are going to be a little
bit more different so I see memes about the tier 2 stuff all the time but maybe the general public
doesn't always see that stuff because they're not so in the meme Universe you know what I mean so
I almost put in tier two the FDR in a wheelchair thing actually uh yes because you know he kept
it from the media and it was you know he tried to keep it under wraps but now a days I feel like
a lot of people know about it maybe not everybody but tier three we're going underwater hold your
breath all right oh first of all that dude do you recognize that guy uh I've seen his face before
but I'm not sure that is Steve kornacki he is one of my favorite political pundits when it comes
to both presidential and midterm elections is that the guy that usually like has the map and
he's doing like the you know like when there's a presidential election and he's showing off the
Electoral College and he's doing that like does is he one of those guys yeah Ah that's how I know
him yes I would love to be that guy one day oh it's like a dream job but anyway yeah so he would
know that Ronald Reagan was a famous actor before entering politics yep Reagan was a Hollywood star
for decades before first becoming the governor of California in 1967. he would also know that more
presidents have come from both Virginia and Ohio than any other state eight presidents are from
Virginia George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe William Henry Harrison John
Tyler Zachary Taylor Anne Woodrow Wilson indeed seven of the first 12 presidents were from
Virginia Ohio is close behind though seven of the next 17 presidents were from the state
Ulysses Grant Rutherford Hayes James Garfield Benjamin Harrison William McKinley William Taft
and Warren Harding James Buchanan he would know that he was the only president not to marry I was
so close to putting that into my tier list but I did not so that's funny that you brought that
up yes that's good as I brought up in this video some even speculates that Buchanan was sexually
attracted to men not women okay so for my uh tear below the surface I have Van Buren was the first
president born in the United States you know what I mean by that like officially yes 1782 I think is
when he was born you can tell me if you know about this one Mr beat John Hansen could technically
be considered the first U.S president under the Articles of Confederation or so I have seen
you know some people argue like he's the first I don't know to be clear I don't consider John
Hanson a president because under the Articles of Confederation the country didn't even have an
executive branch he was the president of Congress man and the third thing is uh John Quincy Adams
approved a Voyage to the Center of the Earth people thought that he was a hollow birther but
he wasn't but he approved a you know in those days they thought the Earth was Hollow and he
did approve a voyage to go to the Center of the Earth obviously they never did that but holy crap
I didn't know about this you already stopped okay that's all I needed that's all I needed so there
are there are facts on the internet that is that are claiming that John Quincy Adams was a hollow
earther but I don't think that's true I think he just approved it for political purposes but he
didn't believe that it was going to go anywhere in the first place oh wow that's like a scandal
yeah yes yes it was a hollow Earth yeah I looked this up later it's totally true I can't imagine
what the sixth tier is going to be like if if you put that in the third oh my goodness no no
you know you definitely definitely know some of the things that are going to come up I think so
fourth tier JJ McCullough these are things that he would know now I will say JJ he's Canadian but
he knows American history impressively well more than the vast majority of Americans I would
argue absolutely but he will just message me a random presidential fact that I didn't know
so that's why I put him on here also the whole idea of doing this video was JJ's idea so another
shout out shout out to JJ for recommending this because I thought it was a brilliant idea anyway
Andrew Jackson had a bullet stuck in his chest for most of his life so that was one of the duels
that he was in did you know any like did you know that yes I did know that one okay a dude named
Charles Dickinson apparently talked trash about Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel and as All American
history junkies know you just don't talk trash about Rachel Jackson or Andrew Jackson will try to
kill you in a duel indeed he killed Dickinson in a duel on May 30th 1806. however Dickinson had also
shot Jackson since Jackson had apparently let him shoot first the bullet missed Jackson's Heart
by little more than an inch while it shattered his breastbone and rib cage it didn't threaten
infection doctor said if he tried to remove the bullets it would certainly cause him to die so
he just left it in his chest for the rest of his life even though it often caused him tremendous
pain Bill Clinton was the first president to have an email address ooh I should have known that
but I'd never officially knew I mean you could probably guess that though yeah I could guess it
you have just the time period in things what was the email rolled out could it have been George
H.W bush it could have been but he was afraid of technology so yeah 1993 was when when Clinton was
in there he's like yeah let's do it Bill Clinton was also president when the White House launched
its first website we talked about this I know you knew this but John Quincy Adams regularly went
skinny dipping in the Potomac River sometimes other people would join him he's like yeah come
in picking clothes off and join me in the Potomac I'm sorry to put the image of a naked John Quincy
Adams in your head but it's absolutely true JQ was an excellent swimmer and apparently skinny dipped
into Potomac quite regularly throughout his life something that I noticed that was funny creating
this Iceberg meme challenge with you is that it was hard to not just put everything about John
Quincy Adams because he just has so many weird things that he was doing yeah it's like dang I
could fill this whole thing out with just his stuff I have John Quincy Adams kept an alligator
in his bathroom did you know about that Mr B as it turns out I did know that because I mentioned it
in my presidential pets video hey check that one out for my second one I have a Dwight Eisenhower
wanted to assassinate these squirrels by the White House you know oh you know about this he asked
the Secret Service to get rid of all the squirrels because they were messing with his golf game right
yep as you may remember in my Dwight Eisenhower video Ike was a pretty big golfer and these
squirrels were digging on his putting green at the White House he once said the next time you see one
of those squirrels go near my pudding green take a gun and shoot it for my third one I have maybe to
put this one lower let's see if you know this one Mr B Paraguay loves Rutherford Hayes possibly
more than anyone here in the US and uh do you know what oh you already knew this and you know
why because the paraguayan war they have a whole uh District in Paraguay named Presidente Ruther
Ford I believe something like that also shout out to Emperor Tigerstar who has a whole video about
why that is Rutherford Hayes played a big role in negotiations in a border dispute between Paraguay
and Argentina that ultimately gave Paraguay 60 of its land yeah there's statues of him everywhere
apparently in the country as well so crazy so crazy I just they learned about that recently
so I'm just like wow this is this is amazing fifth down yeah this tier is that that guy is
his name is Mr beat uh yes this is stuff that I knew already that I would say that a lot of people
don't know sorry JJ it's not that I'm smarter than you because you're a smarter guy Than Me overall
but I think I might have a slight Edge on you when it comes to presidents I mean you live in the
U.S he he does you have a home field advantage you should you should Mr B if you don't that's
really bad but hopefully you know what I mean all right so anyway Teddy Roosevelt drank a gallon
of coffee every day did not know that why is that I wonder if you think about it this one makes
perfect sense considering how much that dude got done in an average day Gerald Ford almost played
professional football in the NFL I think I have seen something about that yeah it's well known
that Ford played football for the university in Michigan but what's less known is that he turned
down offers from both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers to play in the NFL instead going to
law school and coaching and you probably knew this one Richard Nixon loved rap and dreamed
of becoming a rapper I did not know that that is crazy yeah yep I love that fact though that's
like my new favorite fact so what's the origin of that do you know they didn't know it until after
he died apparently they were going through some old recordings in the 90s uh after he died okay I
will start to promote this because I'm not seeing nearly enough information about this I have often
thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days I might have chosen a career
in music instead of politics yeah that's an actual quote from Nixon I imagine if he did pursue a rap
career his stage name definitely would have been tricky dick this should be everywhere okay so the
fifth tier down I have okay let's just start with this I'm just gonna say Lyndon Johnson's jumbo
do you know about this do you know jumbo private part yes this is the name of Lyndon Johnson yeah
uh this it was that it had a name I don't know I don't know his name jumbo I guess we'll get into
that anymore but that was just like that was just I only put those three words Lyndon Johnson's
jumbo next up George Washington's teeth might have been made out of animal teeth and other human
teeth specifically slaves I've actually seen his teeth in person a couple times at Mount Vernon
they have it there all I know is it's not just wood right we all thought it was just wood but
it's possible that there's probably a plethora of things that went into those Dentures back in the
day yeah the wooden teeth thing is the myth but other uh also Ivory gold and Lead they were just
kind of throwing whatever they could in there they were just like put that in put that in that that
could be a tooth he lost all his teeth like when he was your age dang he had already lost all of
his teeth yeah regardless it must have worked he was good good guy good president you know at Mount
Vernon they actually don't say this but after further research yeah it appears that some of his
teeth did come from former slaves apparently the uh third fact okay again three words it's Jimmy
Carter's urine and that is because at one point I guess it was radioactive have you heard about
this Mr Bean he had uh I guess he had jumped into some sort of radioactive water or something
like that and so for like a week there I guess his urine was radioactive wow why was he jumping in
and radioactive it was accidental I I think and I think it was really young I looked it up later
and the reason why he had radioactive urine was actually quite impressive while Carter was in
the Navy he helped clean up a nuclear reactor that had a partial meltdown he later said he
had radioactive urine for six months after that but hey Jimmy Carter is still kicking today
at 98 years old so I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger that's the second one you
stumped me on the thing I always like to tell about Jimmy Carter is how a rabbit once attacked
him when he was in a boat fishing this is while he was President speaking of Jimmy Carter and
before we get into Jimmy Carter here the guy on the right there his name is Douglas Brinkley he
is a presidential historian he knows everything you could possibly know about any president this
guy is underrated when it comes I'm not where he would definitely know that Jimmy Carter could
read 2 000 words a minute although I will say that was allegedly because that's what Jimmy said at
one point two thousand words a minute with 95 comprehension which is insane it's like speed
reading hey James Madison we talked about his height but he also only weighed a hundred pounds
today the average American male weighs about twice that amount he's a tiny man and I actually went
down a rabbit over this one Thomas Jefferson I'm pretty sure he was the first American
to grow and eat a tomato wow the tomato is kind of a big freaking deal yes like imagine this
country without the Tomato it's you can't even do it Thomas Jefferson brought us pizza basically
Jefferson grew at least 330 different types of vegetables and 170 different types of fruits at
Monticello okay so for my uh last year I have a JFK's missing brain did you know about this one
of the conspiracy theories isn't it uh yeah I mean all we know is we just don't have his brain
anymore like someone just it was kind of chaotic when they were trying to get his body afterward
or something I don't know do you know about that I I do also love JFK conspiracy theories so much uh
but I don't know exactly the reasoning we had the brain for a little bit and I guess like a month or
two later supposedly it just disappeared I looked it up later and apparently there is some evidence
that maybe John F Kennedy's younger brother Robert maybe took his brain I have a Nixon used to
drive his wife on dates with other men wait say again Nixon used to drive his wife to dates
with other men now like that is a very clickbaity way to phrase this but when Nixon first met his
wife it wasn't his wife it was just a girl that he liked uh she wasn't interested I guess for the
first six months he would drive his wife to dates with other men just so that he can get more time
to talk with it and eventually I guess that ended up working that strategy ended up working because
eventually she picked Nixon and I got married and everything no idea I went to the Nixon Library
when I was out there in California last summer of US History tubers did and that wasn't brought
up at the Museum and uh the final fact I have is that Bill Clinton might be a brony a brony is a
person that really enjoys My Little Pony yeah I have not heard about this he was on uh maybe some
sort of NPR interview or something some interview back in 2011 and he was asked three questions
about the show My Little Pony and he got all of them correct it's true Bill Clinton called in to
wait wait don't tell me Peter Sagel expected to stump Clinton with these My Little Pony questions
but Bill got them all right surprising everyone so you know a lot of the speculation has been
you know he is one of the fan like a brony is an overly obsessed fan of My Little Pony or
maybe just Chelsea Clinton was a big maybe that too maybe two we don't know yeah we we don't
know yeah so uh you got me on three at least nice how many did you not know time oh actually
uh quite a bit once we got past your like third tier several of that idea this was a very good
learning experience for me for sure yours were way more interesting than mine miners like I I'm
such a boring teacher I swear I'm like who's focus on stuff that's more important it's only because
I can uh phrase the phrases in a clickbaity way so you know like you look more into it you dig more
into it thanks for joining me here uh everyone subscribed to Drew dournal it's Journal right
not Darnell it is Darnell it is Journal at least that's how I've been uh told to say it the whole
time who told you how to pronounce my grandma my grandma so I I don't know Grandma's making
it up yeah she could be she totally could be In the description of this
video you’ll find a link to my Iceberg Presidential Facts Chart notebook
that you can purchase if you want to. Thanks to Drew Durnil for collaborating with me for
this video. He also is releasing a video at the same time as this, as matter of fact. He’s
such a nice guy and has an awesome channel that YOU should subscribe to. So what’s YOUR
favorite obscure presidential fact? Let me know in the comments. I hope you have the best
Presidents Day ever, and thanks for watching!
