I’ve actually written a few posts about Harry Truman already, so I won’t go over them again. (You can read them here and here and here if you’d like.)

But I did come across a few more interesting Truman facts the other day…

• Truman cheated to get into WWI. His eyesight was really bad. So he memorized the Army’s eye chart.
• Truman, who was President during WWII, was born in 1884.
• While he was involved with local politics in Missouri, he did not hold a major political office until he was elected as a US Senator at age 50. He was re-elected to a second term, and was then selected to be FDRs third VP.

Source: History Channel