- Disappeared on July 30, 1975 and was legally declared dead on July 30, 1982. The exact circumstances of his death have never been resolved.
- He never drank alcohol and he never smoked.
- Jimmy Hoffa was portrayed by Robert Blake in Blood Feud (1983), by Jack Nicholson in Hoffa (1992) and by Al Pacino in The Irishman (2019).
- He had a severe dislike for both John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. He referred to Robert F. Kennedy as a "punk".
- President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1957-1971).
- Had two children with Josephine Poszywak: Barbara Ann Crancer (born 1938) and James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941).
- He was sent to prison in 1967 for jury tampering, fraud and attempted bribery. He was to serve a 13 year sentence, but President Richard Nixon reduced it, and Hoffa was released from prison in 1971.
- The third album "The Coney Island Death March" by the NYC punk band Eleventh Hour contains a song written about him titled "Jimmy Hoffa".
- His motto was "If it moves, sign it up.".
- The 1978 movie F.I.S.T. was loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, but unlike Hoffa (who was German-American) a fictional Hungarian-American named Johnny Kovak (played by Sylvester Stallone) was modeled on him and the fictional Federation of Interstate Truckers (F.I.S.T) was based on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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