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August 22, 2024 32 secs
One Washington D.C. tourist questions a story commonly told about our first president, George Washington.  (Photo: Getty Images)
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A tour guide was showing a tourist around Washington, d C.
The guide pointed out the place where George Washington supposedly
threw a dollar across the Potomac River. That's impossible, says
the tourist. No one could throw a coin that far.
You have to remember, says the guide, a dollar went

(00:20):
a lot further back then. Amen,
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