The following are 5 Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln;

1 - Lincoln was the first president to sport a beard; he began to grow his beard shortly after his election in 1860, when supporters and advisers suggested that facial hair would soften his somewhat harsh appearance.

2 - Lincoln only had 18 months of formal education. He loved reading and educated himself becoming first a lawyer and later president of the United States.

3 - He created a national banking system with the National Banking Act in 1863, resulting in a standardized currency.

4 - The Lincoln Bedroom was never a bedroom in Lincoln's time; it was an office where Lincoln met with cabinet members and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The room still contains a few pieces of office furniture from Lincoln's time along with a handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address.

5 - Lincoln, one week before his death, had a dream of someone crying in the White House, when he found the room; he looked in and asked who had passed away. The man in the room said the President. When he looked in the coffin it was his own face he saw.

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