Barack Obama is the 43rd President of the United States

... and not the 44th.

Strictly speaking, that is. Okay, some of you may be thinking "What are you talking about? Ronald Reagan was the 40th President, George H. W. Bush was the 41st, Bill Clinton was 42nd, George W. Bush was 43rd, and that makes Barack Obama the 44th President - duh!" Well, Ronald Reagan was actually the 39th President of the United States. The 39th different man to serve as president, that is.

For those of you not up on presidential trivia, I present to you two words: Grover Cleveland.

You see, Grover Cleveland served two nonconsecutive terms - he was both the 22nd President and the 24th President (Benjamin Harrison was 23rd). So as far as how many different men (or someday, men or women) have served as president, for now, we're one off. Barack Obama may be recorded as being the 44th President of the United States, but now you know better!

Other presidential trivia:

* Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest man ever to serve as President

* John F. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected President

* James Buchanan was the only bachelor President

* William Henry Harrison served the shortest term as President (only about a month)

* William Howard Taft served as both President and Chief Justice of the United States

Just some of the trivia I find interesting - which reminds me of a board game I got as a child, back when the current president was Gerald Ford (or was it Jimmy Carter?). It was called 'Meet the Presidents.' The board had pictures of all the presidents which marked the spaces to travel across, so it made it easier to memorize all of them. That's how I did it anyway!