U.S. President Facts That Will Make You See Them Differently

Zachary Taylor died suddenly after eating cherries and iced milk, triggering rumors he’d been poisoned. Theories flew for decades, leading to his body being exhumed in 1991 for modern testing. The results? No poison — just a brutal gastrointestinal infection that his era’s medicine couldn’t handle.

Still, the mystery gave his presidency an eerie, almost gothic aftertaste. A president dying from a summer snack feels strange enough to keep the speculation alive, even long after science closed the case.