George Washington - most of you know him as America’s first president, Revolutionary War hero, founding father, face of the one dollar bill, chopped down a cherry tree, wooden teeth, real man’s man if you know what I mean. I think that’s all most people know or think they know about him. But the cherry tree thing, that never happened. The wooden teeth? They weren’t made of wood. I don’t think many people actually know George Washington’s story - who he was, what he did, what his life was like, the good, the bad, the truth. Let’s fix that. 

Sources: 

• Encyclopedia Britannica "George Washington"
• Mount Vernon "George Washington"
• Encyclopedia Virginia "George Washington and Slavery"
• The Atlantic "George Washington Was a Master of Deception"
• Cracked "14 Highly Uncomfortable Facts About George Washington"
• JSTOR "Were George Washington's Teeth Taken From Enslaved People?"
• Mount Vernon "Cherry Tree Myth"
• Mount Vernon "George Washington, Spymaster"

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