• spez@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Wasn’t there a myth about how Washington had horse teeth in his mouth? There’s a great bit my Geoffrey Asmus on that, how he eventually learns it was slave teeth

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      3 days ago

      Yep kinda, the white-washing history myth that most US gradeschoolers get taught is that “george washington had wooden teeth”. The reality is that a lot of his teeth were from his slaves.

      Margaret Kimberly’s - Prejudential goes through every US president individually, and has a good chapter on him.