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Feb 27, 2018 28 min

hiStory

from Your Brain on Facts Hosted by Moxie LaBouche

Take, for example, George Washington’s youthful proclamation on the lumberjacking of his father’s cherry tree - “I cannot tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.” It’s one of the first presidential facts American children learn in elementary school. The trouble is, that story is a complete fabrication.

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