but today is George Washington’s real 285th birthday. Here are interesting facts about the first president, including his wealth, his career as a distiller, and the truth about those teeth.

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After being unanimously chosen to be the first President of the United States, former secretary of the Continental Congress Charles Thomson was dispatched to deliver the news to George Washington ...

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For more interesting facts about the State of the Union ... Before him, presidents George Washington and John Adams had read their annual addresses to Congress, just like Obama plans to do.

But that’s not what our forefathers had in mind when they made Washington’s Birthday a formal holiday. Every third Monday in February, the nation honors its first president, George ...