26 Fascinating Founding Fathers Facts

It couldn’t have been easy for John Green to come up with such tantalizing tidbits about our founding fathers that we haven’t heard before. Who knew Samuel Adams was ugly? That John Jay got a new job every time he left home? That Paul Revere was drunk during his famous ride? Of course, Benjamin Franklin gets the biggest share of trivia, of course, because that man was a never-ending font of awesomeness. We also get to witness Green growing a beard. Learn all that and more in this episode of the mental_floss List Show.