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George Washington's dentures were not wood; but were made from gold, hippopotamus tusk, elephant ivory and human teeth

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George Washington was adamant about being put into the morgue 3 days after his death to make sure he wasn’t “accidentally” alive.

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George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting.

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George Washington owned a whiskey distillery.

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George Washington is an exemplary American. Thus, instead of adoring the man, we should applaud the nation which educated him.

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George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice

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George Washington is a hero, but not a man of imposing pomp, rather, he excites an- other sort of respect which seems to spring from the sole idea that the safety of each individual is attached to his per- son.

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George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he asked his staff to wait two days after his death to bury him.

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George Washington is a wise, a good, and a great man: a man of prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed, but also a man of purpose once decide.

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George Washington is a leader who was by no means a scholar. It is beyond dispute that he was too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station.

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George Washington is a man whose mind was great and powerful, with- out being of the very first order: his penetration strong . . . And, as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imaginat.

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George Washington is the only unanimously elected President

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George Washington was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976; by law no officer can outrank him.

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