At 5'11", Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump are all tied for the title of tallest first lady.

For nearly two years, Jane Pierce remained secluded in the upstairs living quarters of the White House, spending her days writing letters to her dead son Benny who was killed in a train accident just before her husband's swearing-in.

Rachel Jackson was a bigamist, having married Andrew Jackson before she was divorced from her first husband. Technically, she never served as first lady, having died after Jackson was elected president but before his inauguration.

When President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, the Trumans were the first senior citizens to receive Medicare cards, presented to them by Johnson at the Truman Library.

After graduating from the Art Students League of New York, Ellen Wilson pursued portrait art and received a medal for one of her works from the Paris International Exposition.

Beginning in the 1870s, Washingtonians from all social levels celebrated Easter Monday on the west grounds of the U.S. Capitol where children rolled brilliantly dyed hard-boiled eggs down the terraced lawn. This practice ended in 1876, however, when lawmakers complained that eggs shells were destroying the grass and passed the Turf Protection Act which banned egg rolls from Capital grounds. But First Lady Lucy Hayes revived the tradition in 1878 by inviting children to roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn, a tradition that has continued ever since.

The "Just Say No" campaign first emerged during Nancy Reagan's 1982 visit to Longfellow Elementary School in Oakland, California. When asked by a schoolgirl what to do if she was offered drugs, the First Lady responded: "Just say no."

Caroline Harrison secured $35,000 in appropriations from Congress to renovate the White House. She had the mansion purged of problem rodent and insect populations, laid new floors, installed new plumbing, painted and wallpapered, and added more bathrooms. In 1891 she had electricity installed but was too frightened to handle the switches, so she left the lights on all night and a building engineer turned them off each morning.

In February of 1962, Jackie Kennedy gave a nationally televised tour of the newly renovated White House to an audience of 56 million viewers. The telecast gave most Americans their first in-depth look at the home of the presidents and was so well received that it won Mrs. Kennedy a special Emmy award.

After the death of James Madison, Dolley moved back to the capital where she was awarded an honorary seat in Congress. She remained closely connected to the public role she popularized by providing guidance to presidential wives Julia Tyler and Sarah Polk.