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Why does the snake in Join or die have 8 pieces not 13?

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Franklin designed the flag to convince the colonies they needed to stick together and 8 weren't really excited about doing that. He listed these colonies on the snake segments. The flag was a political statement and was meant to add peer pressure to the hold out colonies.

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because the number 8 is the number of the infinite and creation will never die

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