Top American History Moments - and I Just Started Another Biography
- Ben Franklin falling asleep on the congress floor
- Alexander Hamilton getting stoned by a mob while defending the Jay Treaty
- John Quincy Adams being the first president to give a female reporter an interview, but only because she caught him skinny dipping in the Potomac and sat on his clothes until he listened to her
- people calling John Adams “his rotundy”
- the Salem Witch Trails probably being because everyone was tripping balls because there was LSD in the water supply
- Alexander Hamilton having a horse named Riddle
- Thomas Jefferson going to Italy and stuffing rice seeds in his pockets to take back to America
- Thomas Jefferson having a waffle iron shipped back from France
- Alexander Hamilton basically saying that Jefferson was gay for France
- John Adams accidentally sending pages from his dairy to the Continental Congress, where they all laughed at him
- Thomas Jefferson calling Hamilton a hypochondriac when he caught yellow fever
- Washington surrendering Fort Necessity on July 4th, 1754
- The continental army having to be ordered to stop shooting at geese because they were wasting gun powder
- Merriweather Lewis accidentally being shot in the ass
- Aaron Burr’s speech to the Senate when he left allegedly bringing everyone to tears
- Hamilton saying that there was no need to open the Constitutional Convention with a prayer, because that would be asking for “foreign aid”
- Hamilton also saying that he was “as little fitted” to be a farmer “as Jefferson to guide the helm of the United States”
- Lafayette naming his daughter Virginie, and Ben Franklin then saying that he had twelve more states to go
- Aaron Burr consistently referring to himself in the third-person in letters
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