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Podcast: Your Brain on Facts
Episode:

hiStory
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:27:00
Publish Date: 2018-02-27 21:49:07
Description:

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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