stackyFACTSThe cherry tree story is cute, but they conveniently left out the part where the founding father's smile was a horrifying mosaic of brutal exploitation.
The cherry tree story is cute, but they conveniently left out the part where the founding father's smile was a horrifying mosaic of brutal exploitation. George Washington never had wooden teeth. Instead, his heavily spring-loaded dentures were an unholy combination of hippo tusks, cow teeth, brass, and actual teeth purchased from enslaved people at a deep discount. Real American history is infinitely more cursed than your elementary school textbooks.
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