05 8 / 2012

"In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw—having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves."

The sorry legacy of the founders

see, THIS is history. and you won’t find it in any secondary school history textbook in the U.S., i guarantee.

(via so-treu)

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