The following are actual presidential facts that may or may not be from the upcoming Disney/Nicolas Cage movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets:

George Washington was never actually president. General Washington retired after the Revolutionary War, and a German Freemason named Adam Weishaupt, who happened to look like Washington, showed up in Philadelphia a few years later to accept the presidency. Washington, being an illiterate farmer, never even knew about it until he saw a coin with his name and face on it, which caused the heart attack that killed him.

George Clinton, who served as vice-president to both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison is the great-great-great-great-great grandfather of funk master George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic fame. Today, the elder Clinton is honored by a sign marking the intersection of George St and Clinton St in La Crosse WI. (It's actually just two street signs, but if you look at just the right angle...)

The presidency of James K. Polk actually came about as a result of a bet between Polk and Henry David Thoreau about which could propose the least usable life philosophy and convince future generations of Americans to follow it blindly. Neither has yet collected on the bet.

Abraham Lincoln, with the Civil War won, decided that what he really wanted was to retire and move back to Illinois. So he secretly hired famed actor John Wilkes Booth to pretend to shoot him with a prop gun. Booth was then to be captured and tried in the only place where an impartial jury could be found... California. And because Booth was an actor, the jury of Californians would obviously find him not guilty. Unfortunately, Booth used the wrong gun, and the rest is history.

We all know that Grover Cleveland was the first (and only) president to serve non-consecutive terms. But did you know he was only able to do this through time travel?

After hand-picking William Taft as his successor, Teddy Roosevelt disapproved of the job Taft did and formed his own political party, ridiculously dubbed the "Bull Moose Party," so that he could challenge Taft in the 1912 election. Unfortunately the strategy backfired and the nation elected a college president from New Jersey. (Wait... that actually happened!)

Franklin Roosevelt went through vice-presidents like Spinal Tap went through drummers. First there was John Nance Garner who famously hated Roosevelt. Early in Roosevelt's first term, Garner, during an argument, body slammed Roosevelt on a conference table, breaking his spine and confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Garner, while passing through southern Minnesota after being banished to Portland, Oregon, ate dinner at a table that is currently in my brother's dining room. (True story.) After Garner was Henry Wallace, who during the early days of WWII traveled to Tibet to enlist a group of monks with supernatural power in the fight against Nazism. He was then replaced by a failed farmer and clothing salesman.

Any one who knows anything about conspiracies knows the list of parties involved in the Kennedy Assassination: Lyndon Johnson, Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Mafia, the Russians, the Cubans, Richard Nixon, Texas oilmen, Pepsi, the ghost of Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Woody Harrelson's dad, Martin Sheen, the guys behind the fence in the grassy knoll, Lee Marvin, etc., but the real killer was a microscopic meteorite that just happened to be crashing to Earth in Dealy Plaza at just that time.

As a college student at Georgetown University, Bill Clinton worked as a driver. One day, he drove Senator Hale Boggs to the airport. Boggs was a member of the Warren Commission and an outspoken critic of the single-shooter theory. Boggs tipped his driver, got on the plane, flew to Alaska, and was never seen again. As president, Clinton nailed Boggs' daughter, ABC news reporter Cokie Roberts. There are no coincidences.