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My AP history teacher liked to make up stuff. But like, he’d say he made it up right after telling the made-up thing.

TIL I’m your AP history teacher (just kidding, but I do enjoy recreationally lying to children)

Was your brother my 6th grade history+english teacher who spent more of class time having recess or playing Risk (the board game) than anything else?

Just like my old physics teacher. Heard stories about him telling the students, that Pd (Palladium) is named after him (his last name had the same abbreviation).

Also jokingly using the screen of a calculator as a scale for weighing metal ball bearings.

Primary sources make shit up too tho

But if you read a primary source, that’s one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it’s based on is legit, there’s some other guy who wasn’t there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.

It’s not that you can’t go wrong with primary sources. It’s that you can go a lot wronger without them.

Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.

The main problem with primary sources is that they are often involved in the event itself - or at least greatly affected by it - which makes them the most biased.

Fun fact: The first president to have a middle name was John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.

John Quincy Adams

the sixth president

Quincy - Meaning:The fifth

RAAAAAAAARGH

They started counting from zero, as it should be

Who was the zeroth president? Or zeroth child? 🤔

I feel like you’re lying, but I don’t know enough about middle names to dispute it.

Although, Washington didn’t have a mustache. That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.

And there’s never been a president with purple hair. Harris, I’m lookin’ at you. Be bold!

That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.

Oddly enough that was ALSO John Quincy Adams…

Ok. Not really. He was the first to have sideburns.

Lincoln was the first to have a beard.

Grant was the first to have a mustache.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_with_facial_hair

Of course Wikipedia has the list of US presidents with facial hair. Because why not

What’s the presidential tattoo situation?

That would be Lyndon B. Johnson, who is said to have had a hell of a tramp stamp.

I believe both of the Roosevelts had the same tattoo, of their family crest

as an expert in middle names (been working with them my whole life) i can confirm it is true

As someone who works with middle names, maybe you can’t tell but this middle name is in a lot of distress.

OK what was it then? I’ve heard him being called John Quincy S. Adams at a local museum. Do you know what the S stands for?

John Quincy Skibidi Adams

I thought it was SkiiinnEEEEERRR!

Smith, named after George Smith Washington

John S. Quincy Adams

President Fake A. Gay

Randomass Fakenamington

“Went back 8 years later after”

Words hard.

I also don’t never proof-read my shit posting on the internet tbh

I just about exclusively Lemmy from mobile, and auto carrot hates my guts. I end up sounding illiterate most of the time

While looking up what his middle name was, I learned that the tradition of middle names did not become widespread in the US until the 1830s. Interesting.

What I want to know is what’s up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?

So nice we named her twice

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