Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.

He lived in a real log cabin as a boy. The cabin was only about 12 feet wide and 16 feet long.

He had an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Thomas.

He had four children, all boys: Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace and Thomas "Tad."

He was called "Honest Abe." When he accidentally ruined a book a neighbor had lent him, he admitted it and worked for the book's owner to pay it off. The man let him keep the book.

A man named John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln with a type of gun called a derringer, which was very small and held one bullet.

Lincoln was watching a play at the time, a not-so-funny comedy called "Our American Cousin."

His face drooped on one side because a horse kicked him when Lincoln was a kid, causing permanent nerve damage.

When he started running for president, Lincoln didn't have a beard, and had never had one. He grew one after 11-year-old Grace Bedell from Westfield, N.Y., wrote him a letter suggesting the beard would make Lincoln more handsome and would help him win the presidency.

He was famously strong: He could hold an ax by the end of its handle parallel to the ground with his arm outstretched. (Don't try this at home!)

He drank very little, didn't smoke or chew tobacco, and didn't gamble.

Lincoln wore a size 14 shoe. His right foot was a quarter inch longer than his left.

Was he homely (another word for "ugly")? Some people thought so. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne called him "the homeliest man I ever saw." But those comments never bothered Abe, who often joked about the way he looked.

He wore a tall, black hat called a "stovepipe hat" because it looked like a big, black pipe that smoke goes out of on a stove that burns wood or coal.

You might have a picture of Abraham Lincoln on you right now. His portrait is on the $5 bill and on the penny.

Source: Gerald J. Prokopowicz, an ECU history professor, and his book, "Did Lincoln Own Slaves?"