The Surprising Thing Paul Revere Did At The Battle Of Bunker Hill Battleground

Paul Revere was, of course, famously a silversmith, but in the early 1760s, he found himself struggling to make ends meet (via Mental Floss). His solution was to take up a secondary trade, apprenticing himself to an oral surgeon named John Baker. By 1770, Revere had hung his shingle, advertising that he could fix teeth "as well as any Surgeon-Dentist who ever came from London, fixing them in such a Manner that they are not only an Ornament, but of real Use in Speaking and Eating" (quoted by the New England Historical Society).

One of Revere's patients was Dr. Joseph Warren, the man who famously enlisted Revere for his midnight ride — and for whom, less famously, Revere had made a dental implant out of some gold wire and a walrus tooth. Sadly, Warren didn't live long after the famous ride, dying as a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill just a couple of months later — and the British dumped his body unceremoniously into a mass grave.

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