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TIL Benjamin Franklin Wanted the National Bird To Be A Turkey

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL about lightning rod fashion. After Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1752, lightning rod hats for ladies and lightning umbrellas for gentlemen became popular in all France, specially in Paris.

by whatilearned August 9, 2022, 6:32 pm

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TIL that Ben Franklin arguably invented the “Pros and Cons list” as a way of making decisions. In his original 1772 letter, he instructs one to cross out items from each column in pairs of equal significance, and then once one side has been exhausted, the other column yields the verdict.

by whatilearned July 16, 2022, 12:01 pm

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TIL A modest Georgian townhouse near Trafalgar Square is the only remaining building in the world where Benjamin Franklin resided. He lived there for 16 years from 1757 to 1773.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 4:03 pm

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TIL Benjamin Franklin didn’t catch lightning in a bottle when he conducted his kite experiment. Ambient electrical charge was collected in a Leyden jar attached to the kite. Baltic physicist Georg Richmann attempted a similar experiment a year later but died after being struck by ball lightning.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 6:53 pm

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TIL that Marion Franklin Tinsley once defeated a checkers playing program named Chinook by analyzing 64 moves into the future and picking the only available winning strategy, after Chinook made a fatal error during gameplay. Tinsley is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived.

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 1:40 am

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TIL Benjamin Franklin wrote a poem about Edward Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 6:19 pm

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TIL that the first 3 presidents of the U.S. and Ben Franklin had English accents.

by whatilearned May 25, 2022, 4:16 am

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TIL Our founding fathers shared a room together. On a cold Fall day in 1776, while John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were traveling for peace negotiations they were forced to share a bed together at a New Jersey Inn for the night which they argued. More in the comments;

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 7:28 am

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TIL On a cold Fall day in 1776 while John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were traveling for peace negotiations they were forced to share a bed together at a New Jersey Inn for the night which they argued. More to this in the comment section;

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 6:56 am

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TIL The song “I Knew You Were Waiting For Me” was supposed to be a duet between George Michael and Michael Jackson until MJ dropped out and then they tried to get Stevie Wonder but due to the timing issue that fell off until it went to Aretha Franklin.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 9:02 am

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TIL that of the 24 Franklin Counties in the United States, Franklin County, Idaho, is the only one that is not named after Benjamin Franklin; it is named after Franklin D. Richards, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 2:10 pm

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