Andrew Jackson wasn't big into backing down. The president participated in more than 100 duels over his lifetime. Mental Floss writes of the seventh president's tendency to step outside: Often ...

The next 100 times Andrew Jackson should have died were in duels of honor—the old-fashioned variety, where sometimes men fired their pistols into the air and sometimes they didn't.

Andrew Jackson lay gasping in his bed at home in Tennessee, ... Creeks and Seminoles, and plagued by wounds from two duels, which had left bullets lodged in his lungs and arm.

Jackson’s demeanor, like Trump’s, appalled his predecessors. He was from the Tennessee frontier, killed a man in a duel, and abandoned Congress to become an elected general in the state militia.

The likely site of Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson's duel. Photo: Betsy Phillips. Like the Vikings discovering Canada or Hernando de Soto discovering the Mississippi River, ...

Jackson increased the eligibility for more people to vote (men only, of course). DeSantis has sought to limit it. Jackson fought over 100 duels to redress any perceived slight.

Parrots can have foul temperaments. A long-viral internet rumor claimed that U.S. President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot got so rowdy and profane at Jackson's funeral that it had to be removed ...