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Paul Revere identified a body by its teeth

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The guy screaming about the British was also identifying corpses by their teeth. As a skilled silversmith, Revere wired false teeth for the elite. After the Battle of Bunker Hill, he became America's first forensic odontologist by identifying a fallen general purely by the silver wire in his mouth.

Paul Revere identified a body by its teeth
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