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History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details have been lost, distorted, covered up...
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Season 1

  • Flying Machines
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    Flying Machines

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2013

    Flying devices have been created to take us all around the world and even into space. On America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn how Apollo 11 only made it home thanks to a pen and that Air Force One is a code name and not the actual name of the plane.

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  • Founding Fathers
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    Founding Fathers

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/10/2013

    We think we know the true story of the birth of the United States but there is a whole other story. In this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction, we learn who else rode with Paul Revere and that George Washington wasn't really our first President.

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  • Pilgrims and Witches
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    Pilgrims and Witches

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/17/2013

    The roots of America can be traced to the first settlers that came there. In this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that the Pilgrim "Thanksgiving" was about fasting and the only "witchcraft" in Salem was done by a group of young girls.

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  • Trick or Treat
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    Trick or Treat

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2013

    We don't always know the truth behind what scares us. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that our Halloween's origins aren't all that ancient and that Edgar Allan Poe is not the madman that others have made him out to be.

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  • The Inventors
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    The Inventors

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/2013

    We don't always know the truth behind the inventors that create the devices we use every day. On America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the light bulb and Benjamin Franklin never "discovered" electricity.

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  • Presidential Conspiracies
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    Presidential Conspiracies

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2013

    With our greatest Presidents, we have to differentiate between the man and the legend. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction learn FDR may have never had polio and Abraham Lincoln and JFK don't have all that much in common.

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  • The New World
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    The New World

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/14/2013

    There is more to the explorers who discovered America than we have been told. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction learn Christopher Columbus never stepped foot in North America and Hernán Cortés didn't defeat the Aztecs by himself.

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  • Roadside Stories
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    Roadside Stories

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/21/2013

    A whole other story is behind the roads and bridges that cross the United States. On this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions learn a woman was the driving force behind completing the Brooklyn Bridge and Route 66 wasn't built from scratch.

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