Fascinating Facts About Americas Founding Fathers

Looking back into history can be both enlightening and eye-opening. Did you know that Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, believed that being black was a disease? Or that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr after a long-standing political feud between the two? And Gouverneur Morris died sticking a whalebone into the muscles of his thighs! Fascinating facts about America's founding fathers!
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[@localneighbor6528]

Imagine politicians today settling debates with a duel💀

[@mikhailshishin5701]

Who do u think would win in a duel versus Biden and Trump

[@D00MMAST3R]

​@@mikhailshishin5701 I think Trump, not because I want him to or that I support him, but it's just that Biden doesn't seem very agile, awake, energetic enough etc to win a duel

[@redsalinas4354]

That’s as real as it gets! 😎😎😎 Most of our politicians nowadays are little L@dyb0ys with soft hands and have to sit down to urine!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m pretty sure the majority of them never been in any type of mutual combat and some are against civilians with firearms and are pushing for a gun ban yet they pay top dollar for security to protect them with the very firearms they are trying to get rid of!

[@Wiki1184]

@@mikhailshishin5701 I’d go with Trump. Out of those two, I feel like he’d know how to shoot a gun.

[@asianll8060]

I prefer the Brazilian method of settling it with a cage match

[@bzcarmona]

Me not pulling bitches Benjamin Franklin:

[@cheeseburgerpaladin]

Does it still count if you manipulate old women who are vulnerable?

[@IronCrawdady]

@@cheeseburgerpaladin Yes, yes it does.

[@donseavey3704]

“Go hunt yourself some MILFS boy” -Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father

[@catanana]

​@@cheeseburgerpaladin if you don't, somebody else will.

[@hotman8218]

BENJAMIN HAD THAT DAWG IN HIM

[@isg4]

"Hey, are you coming to school?" "Sorry bro, I'm black" 💀

[@swaggerness001]

💀💀💀💀

[@mercurius1488]

Still happens today. Most people without education are black

[@arta.xshaca]

Oh hell naw

[@Myreactionwhen_80085]

Fair enough

[@KrispyNoKen]

😂😂😂😂

[@rajakghosh6602]

Benjamin Franklin was the original Leonardo Dicaprio.

[@MannyBXNG]

Nah

[@HelloEdits613]

the opposite

[@aerohk]

Leo only go for teens. Ben goes for old ladies.

[@miguelzurita3216]

Ben was truly a Sigma level Chad

[@hell1942]

​@@aerohk wth is that actually like confirmed lol

[@JoseTorres-ry9qe]

Benjamin Franklin wasn't just American, he was THE American.

[@johnjesus02]

Funniest thing is he was actually British

[@lechocolat3783]

​@John Jesus Bro was born in Boston, literally helped start the American Revolution, and signed the Declaration of Independence. Calling him British is the written equivalent of kicking him in the nuts 😂 😅

[@johnjesus02]

@@lechocolat3783 Bro was Born in BRITISH Boston to BRITISH parents 70 years before the revolution. The man was British. 🤫

[@johnjesus02]

@@lechocolat3783 one thing you Americans always fail to realise is that the American Revolution wasnt fought between Americans and British people. It was fought between Non Loyal Brits and Loyal Brits. The non Loyal Brits claimed independence and later became known as Americans. Your glorious war of independence was a British civil war. How do you dumbasses seriously not know this? You imagine it as actual Americans as you know them today, beating the British for independence but thats not how it was at all. It was the British fighting the British.

[@lechocolat3783]

@John Jesus Y-you do realize that you're talking about the guy that hated British rule over the 13 colonies so much that he started a revolution with his homies just to end it....right? By that logic, Mahatma Gandhi was British too because he was born 78 years before British Raj ended. 🤫🤡

[@muhammadfarhanatif3105]

What if I told you, Benjamin Franklin had that dawg in him?

[@Ali-fx6jd]

"Why don't you take a seat over there you sick fu*k" Sohoi boy or something lol

[@Hamburgler6.9]

Inspiring..

[@BigDaddy115]

​@@Ali-fx6jd putin is gay 🗣️

[@tyresewilder2277]

Daddy chill

[@BigDaddy115]

@@tyresewilder2277 Tyrese!!!

[@Your_Receding_Hairline]

Gouverneur Morris was desperate for a Darwin Award

[@mariozamudio5850]

I heard he founded Florida.

[@rexblade504]

​@@mariozamudio5850 nah Andrew Jackson did, that's why the state is the way that it is today

[@robertsettle2590]

​@@rexblade504 thank GAWD!!!!

[@bobbob5007]

He got one he on the website lol

[@chestermicgun]

@@robertsettle2590 yeah except Andrew Jackson hated a different race

[@NordeGrasen34]

Benjamin Franklin was the real MVP.

[@KrispyNoKen]

He had that DAWG in him.

[@mathgasm8484]

OG Pimp.

[@Will-jb7dd]

Benjamin rush was

[@mikhailshishin5701]

@@Will-jb7dd 💀

[@chrisavilriv7137]

This mf was the real milf hunter 😂

[@christopherbereznak1175]

They don't swell. They don't tell, and They're grateful as hell....Ben Franklin

[@Justcuz99]

😂

[@TheAzmountaineer]

Actually, Redd Foxx. He also included "They don't yell"

[@christopherbereznak1175]

@@TheAzmountaineer Very true.

[@conradsurak6060]

Lmao made me think of Benny Hill singing that

[@thesoftlife1033]

Facts!!

[@pelham4au]

For people wondering about the whale bone, the alternative treatment to syphilis at that time was sticking a syringe full of mercury up your urethra and injecting yourself. So you know a whale bone doesn't seem to bad in comparison

[@DoranJoseph]

Ah yes mercury, the method of treatment that historically cures a variety of ailments in both the east and west, but I’m not sure it has really ever helped 😅

[@Suzzers]

​@@DoranJoseph I mean, it would permanently stop the pain. Can't feel anything if you're six feet under.

[@austrarobust8993]

They felt so superior, they trusted the wack job doctors just because they spoke well. Punishment fits the crime.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Also it wasn't that he got a whole whale bone stuck in there, whale bone splinters similar to wood, it's one of these splinters which got stuck

[@nafsi8519]

​@@DoranJoseph as person who had to kill an ear infection with marcery (UK certified Doctor's prescription), yes it does work but beware of it's danger.

[@ChucksterOLove]

Ben Franklin has 99 problems, but a young baby mama ain't one.... 😄💯

[@SongsForTheFolk]

Another interesting fact, Benjamin Rush was the most anti-slavery founding father, a stance he retained throughout his life.

[@truthmatters758]

so he should get a medal for not being a racist ?

[@SongsForTheFolk]

@@truthmatters758 No, just find it ironic he's portrayed in such a way.

[@johncrowley3322]

​@@SongsForTheFolk he was right in the wrong way. Being that the white genome is a mutation

[@SongsForTheFolk]

@@johncrowley3322 Evolution anyway

[@Whitebeardtheking9]

​@@truthmatters758 I'm sure you go and beyond in all that you do.

[@LabRat8899]

Gouverneur Morris is a fascinating figure in history. He had many affairs, and lost his leg because his was ran over by a carriage while running from an irate husband after discovering Morris and his wife in bed together. When John Adams heard about this, he said he wished Morris had lost another part of his body

[@anthonylynch7063]

​@vincent91 I dunno. I always thought stories like this made them look more... well, human. Like: Hey, they fucked around and found out but still got shit done: maybe we can too. 😊

[@jadapinkett1656]

​@Vincent You need to heal that abandonment wound.

[@byanymeansnecessary9329]

Yte trash, just like the rest of them

[@widowedtimmi3354]

make political dueling a Pay Per View event.....pay off the national debt in a month...winning

[@Southern_Crusader]

I would pay to watch that.

[@Spiceistaround]

I been thinking bout it for a min but fuck a duel make it an MMA match

[@Muhammadwasapedo]

Let's be realistic. Who do you honestly think has an advantage in dueling with firearms?

[@Dothreban]

Fun fact: They literally built a parking lot over the spot where the duel happened. There should be a shrine there. 🤦

[@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em]

Many would pay for that

[@dianalindeman1644]

Actually, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In the dark, all cats are gray." He knew that because he did a lot of catting around.

[@vegasrenie]

He did a lot of Tomcatting around!!😅

[@ericspahn1857]

What they don't tell you about older women is, they don't yell, they don't tell and they're grateful as hell

[@astroenvious6681]

I need ine

[@foofoo3344]

And that is probably why Ben Franklin's face is on the 100 dollar bill. He gets full 100 points for the money shot

[@loravipperman3061]

Do you even know what "The money shot" is?!?!?! Lmao. It has nothing to do with money 😂

[@foofoo3344]

@@loravipperman3061 Yes, I know it's cum shot. That's why I made the joke. You try to laugh at me as if I'm the moron when YOU are the moron who didn't get my joke. The key point of my joke in the number "100". I'm the one who should be laughing at you and using that emoji on you. SMH

[@JohnPaul-zj6fq]

Benjamin Franklin got that DAWG in him

[@giusepperesponte8077]

Ben Franklin made a convincing argument 😂

[@infinitejest441]

He slept with more old women than young. That’s why he knew so much about them

[@wolflithay6380]

Ben had that unspoken rizz

[@huntclanhunt9697]

Kinda makin Rush look bad by simplifying what he said like that... He thought darker skin color was due to tropical diseases in Africa. He was also very anti slavery, and repeatedly stated that skin color didn't make them any less human. Remember, back then melatonin was not known about, so people genuinely had no idea why skin colors could vary. Up until melatonin was discovered, this was as valid an idea as any.

[@Underworlddream]

They probably saw all those sailer leaving and traveling south come back with darker skin aka Tan then though it was a disease of some sort sense the people they saw all had darker skin. Then when they lost the tan it was them getting better.

[@LeftistJuden]

Melanin* Melatonin is a sleeping aide

[@ericdraven3427]

Big Ben was a Pimp

[@1Purry1]

ok black

[@doublehockeystix]

@@1Purry1 cringe, end it

[@TheDemoman873]

​​@@1Purry1hat the hell does this mean

[@niklar55]

The older woman. ....They don't yell, they don't tell, and... they're grateful as hell! .

[@beanietime3959]

Benjamin had that dawg in him 👽

[@coolguy9709]

Crazy they didn't live a very long ago but their views are so different, the grandson of the 10th president is still alive and his grandfather was born in 1790, which is the time George Washington became president.

[@timothydavis3154]

Correct. An episode of CBS SUNDAY MORNING was done not long ago on him. Grandson of #10-JOHN TYLER: “His Ascendancy” was what his opponents and Congress at the time referred to him as. He was the first vice president to assume the presidency upon the death of his predecessor(#9- William Henry Harrison, who served only 31 days before succumbing to pneumonia)AND…. established the vice presidential successive tradition that didn’t become law until the 25th amendment. Tyler also holds the record for most children by a president at 15 by two wives AND…..the only president to declare himself an enemy of the very country he served as president. Tyler served on the Confederate Congress in 1862.

[@yousufkhan5787]

Benjamin franklin was the og milf hunter

[@CaptainMez0]

Benjamin Franklin had the dog in him 💀

[@cheemseyboie]

Uncle benjamin had that dawg in him

[@aeiio8372]

Fun fact: One was named William Williams.

[@pedropcs_exe]

The absolute madlad Franklin.

[@draco2378]

Morris had that dawg in him

[@Cloudrunner5k]

It's been 8 years since Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton took Broadway by storm. How do people not know Hamilton died in a duel? A more interesting fact is that his murderer, Aaron Burr, tried to overthrow the US government and establish himself as an emperor

[@k.ferguson2982]

Burr/Trump.

[@lodestar3984]

Ikr? I was looking for a comment about Hamilton, and yours was the only one I saw. Also, cool fact about Burr!

[@Cloudrunner5k]

@Lodestar there is actually a really interesting 4-part podcast about it. American History Tellers covered it early this year

[@lodestar3984]

@@Cloudrunner5k Thanks! I’ll check it out

[@awkwardverse]

(F) Gouverneur Morris. What a terrible way to die...

[@troystaunton254]

Damn imagine this letter to the school. “Dear miss Aloysius Frothingham-Smith. I regret to inform you that my son Artavius Oshae Athelstan was unable to attend classes yesterday because he had caught a bad case of black. Thankfully it’s seemed to have passed now. I do however urge you to send him home immediately if he breaks into a fit of Ebonics”

[@Rockstopmotion]

Ben keeping it 100 😊

[@BiLdoEMcLown]

A whale bone you say... perhaps her should've used something a bit smaller... like a sparrow.

[@The_Gabe_]

Bruh Gouverneur Morris was stupid.

[@jamesabestos2800]

And lovin' it up his... errightus malformagis

[@jadapinkett1656]

Medicine was a lot different back then.

[@warthunder9155]

​@@jadapinkett1656 was?

[@shmegma4371]

​@@warthunder9155 twas

[@somkhandagumbi]

Damn, Benjamin is on to something with that last one

[@dirtysailor49]

Hearing all these interesting facts about Benjamin Franklin makes me respect him more and more.

[@troystaunton254]

Damn who would have thought disturbed would write the most beautiful song about racial equality ever…. Of course being “down with the sickness”

[@Contessa6363]

I may be 60 Franklin but I'm sure as hell not desperate!!

[@cracker1103]

Women still love the Benjamin's.

[@alisade127]

Men love them too.

[@yellowwolf1011]

Is it just me or did the entire Hamilton playlist just speedrun in your head when he said Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

[@bluekindasustho3370]

Founding Farters😂

[@kayzeaza]

Benjamin Franklin is the best American to ever live

[@laurieannerodriguez5946]

Founding Old Farts.

[@bobbyduggart4493]

They were young.

[@jorgerojas4388]

​@@bobbyduggart4493how young

[@bobbyduggart4493]

@@jorgerojas4388 A lot of the founding fathers were in their 20s when they signed the declaration of independence, George Washington was 44 in 1776 and he was the oldest among them.

[@marbonifacde]

What's that music please?

[@erenssister.5535]

The term MILF was invented by Benjamin franklin

[@DrTranofEvil]

I guess ‘I have a bone to pick with you’ just got personal!

[@dennissettlemyre917]

I’m thinking of trying Franklins advice 😂

[@florenmage]

Ah Ben Franklin. A practical guy. Someone who was not afraid to ask the important questions.

[@user1A]

Benjamin Franklin: "... they won't tell; they won't swell; and they are grateful as hell"

[@SkipsenPB]

What's the name of the music though?

[@BalloonAsap]

benjamin rush took racism to a different level

[@Cheepchipsable]

Nah, still biological, but he was probably a Christian and thought white people were top tier. Having dark skin was thought of as the "Mark of Cain" by some people.

[@cheridabolland1851]

All he did was pull a switch. Read 2 Kings 5. Elisha cursed Gehazi and his seed forever with the leprosy that Naaman had leaving the skin white.

[@anthonyminimum]

Finally, some recognition for Gouverneur Morris.

[@pavangaur5291]

"yeah that is a disease and unfortunately my son has it "👴🏻

[@crqf2010ruler]

Your son? 🤢

[@pavangaur5291]

@@crqf2010ruler "yeah man my neighbour son also has it "👴🏻

[@sucloxsucloxsson]

Bro is a race mixer

[@Funnypants]

​@@sucloxsucloxssonyoure saying it like he's a scientist mixing race chemicals

[@The_Honourable_Company]

Give him to me I'd give you 10 dollars for that Negro right there

[@JakeMatthews-OnLo]

Is it racism if he’s literally ignorant? I don’t know if he was hateful but that’s just a wild belief.

[@CoffeeSnep]

Medicine and human biology in general was a whole lot of shooting in the dark back then, can't really blame them since you need to go far out ideas to make real progress

[@wednesdayschildfullofwoe]

His ignorance was the reason for his racism, but... it's still racism! Racist are ignorant, are they not???

[@wednesdayschildfullofwoe]

A personalized hate element is not always needed. If he considered Black skin to be a disease, then he considered his White skin superior and better 👀 🤔Sounds like a racist to me.

[@chrismaina1830]

I mean, by definition he's racist, he was still wrong tho

[@devorahacts]

These people still believe in witchcraft and the four humors.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Franklin did not encourage young men to have relationships with old women, but older women There's a big difference.

[@SometimesOriginal]

Looked the same in the dark and can get pied

[@donseavey3704]

I wasn’t aware of Big Ben’s game

[@alisade127]

Oh yea. He invented Franklin Glass or Franklin Mirror. It’s a mirror you can look in from the 2nd floor, ah bedroom and see who is at the front door. He did this to know when the woman s husband was home. The original Ring, per se. lol. He was quite the womanizer.

[@skilless935]

​@@alisade127 sounds like a pos

[@warthunderclipper]

Imagine dying from putting a whalebone up your thing… what was he thinking?

[@mikesmovingimages]

He suffered from syphilis. His urethra was blocked. Hope she was worth it!

[@DoranJoseph]

Back then they trusted those doctors too much, however if that was his own Idea, then yeah…

[@mariozamudio5850]

The original Floridian!

[@baronbrummbar8691]

the offical method back then was to put a syringe up ther and fill it up with quick silver (mercury) ....... the whale bone seems fair under hose circumstances

[@joshke335]

The poor man couldn't pee, I think I would do the same.

[@cameronkissell9059]

Benjamin Franklin had that dawg in him

[@brandonb7337]

Franklin had his priorities in line.

[@theserpent_6_6_6]

Ben Franklin Is The OG Lol

[@donalddude7568]

"Hey buddy you coming to school?" "Na dude I got the Black" "Oh ok see you at the auction "

[@gbluesky4264]

Smart people can still be scum..Eh,Franklin?

[@dakkenblah1450]

Benjamin Franklin was a menace jeez

[@barackyobama6139]

that first guy mightve been onto something...

[@johnc3179]

HEY WAIT A SEC-

[@Nabad-deed]

Hold on something ain't right

[@redactedagentdataexpunged9431]

Hold the fuck up

[@MannyBXNG]

💀💀

[@jon420]

Actually, white people are the mutations

[@RaccoonFederation007]

My man Benjamin !!😂😂

[@anamericancelt6534]

I remember his conversation with Hatham Kenway.

[@jorgemacias2785]

There is a great book on Benjamin Franklin called Mon Cher Papa, that covers the eight years Franklin spent in France. His looks belied how suave and debonair he was. Some of his lines were slick and demonstrated what a player he was. I highly recommend it.

[@ripenbanana257]

I don't know what to comment

[@Tomewarden]

Benjamin Franklin got that founding father rizz

[@odinakachukwukimo-uy9ru]

Mr Rush should not insult what is unique

[@fr0stb1ght34]

Ben Franklin was a full-blown menace!!! Sheesh!

[@nunoneves5809]

Benjamin Franklin was ahead of his time 😂

[@timsans1170]

All Ben Franklin had going for him were his looks and that incredible physique of his!

[@stoundingresults]

The "Got milk?" Commercial. "AAARON burr"

[@michaelattia9834]

Uncle Ben was quite the lad.

[@leonidamantegazza3110]

"Fascinating facts about america's fathers" "Being black is a disase"💀💀💀💀

[@Simba______]

*Being racist is a disease.

[@j.m.d.a1496]

He is right though

[@leonidamantegazza3110]

@@j.m.d.a1496 wat

[@j.m.d.a1496]

@@leonidamantegazza3110 do you speak english? I said he was right

[@leonidamantegazza3110]

@@j.m.d.a1496 no im italian and i've understood, but how a black person is black for a disease?

[@theengagedfew]

The last reason in Franklin's list of reasons to get with older women was "They're always just so grateful!"

[@brentcrane4918]

That’s why Ben is on tha Hundred

[@The_MIghty_Redwood]

Ben Frank was a real one!!!

[@shin29534]

Benjamin franklin deserves to be on the 1k bill

[@darnedkat]

Franklin had that DAWG in him

[@SaintMcFoye]

Ben: Older women- They don't smell, Don't swell, won't tell and grateful as hell...

[@narutoisnttheguyfromfortni11]

bro this mf franklin i wanna be like him

[@joshuaray6222]

Benjamin Franklin is the smartest of them all 😂😮

[@jennifervan75]

Benjamin the Gilf chaser

[@napoliansolo7865]

Ben was also a body builder when he was young.

[@BigGuy86ed]

Old Ben wasn't wrong though... lol

[@iiioiiaka302]

Lowkey 😂

[@mahruskhan4715]

Benjamin Rush is just like any other american lol

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Benjamin Franklin gets the W

[@felipeandresestay]

Bring duels back!!!! Both must agreed on participation.

[@patmanly3215]

That bit about older women: 100% facts.

[@Empath79]

The whale bone one got me! 🤑😳

[@refumei7847]

Rush was wildin

[@hughbowman7591]

If more politicians did that today. How our lives would change

[@judgedredd3568]

Benjamin Franklin Older women Don't tell Don't Swell And are as Greatful as Hell

[@myosotis4507]

Damn, Benny was into cream pies