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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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TIL that in April of 1861, Former President Franklin Pierce wrote to the other living former presidents and asked them to consider meeting to use their stature and influence to propose a negotiated end to the war. However, this idea was ultimately never acted on.

by whatilearned April 25, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL the carriage used in President Kennedy’s funerary procession has an interesting history of its own. It also once carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, and the Unknown Soldier in 1921.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 8:28 pm

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TIL that in 1932, Edith Roosevelt, the Former First Lady and widow of Theodore Roosevelt, campaigned for Herbert Hoover’s re-election to emphasize that the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was not her son.

by whatilearned April 19, 2022, 3:15 pm

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TIL that Benjamin Franklin published a yearly almanac called Poor Richard’s Almanack. The publication was extremely popular, selling 10,000 copies per year, making Franklin rich. In 1735, upon the death of his brother, Franklin sent 500 copies to his widow so she could make money selling them.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 3:55 pm

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TIL By skillful shmoozing(diplomacy), Benjamin Franklin managed to convince the French Court and King Louis XVI to massively support the American Revolution create a Republic; which, in turn virtually bankrupted France and helped lead to the French Revolution….and Louis’ demise.

by whatilearned April 9, 2022, 8:43 pm

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TIL Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica, a radically new arrangement of the glasses (musical instrument). The instrument was so popular that Beethoven and Mozart composed music using the instrument.

by whatilearned April 8, 2022, 4:36 am

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TIL that during a meeting between Grover Cleveland and James Roosevelt, Cleveland said to Roosevelt’s accompanying son, Franklin, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you; that you may never be president of the United States.” The young Franklin Roosevelt became President 45 years later.

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 6:37 pm

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TIL When Benjamin Franklin returned to America after having spent nine years in Paris as an ambassador, he was short 100,000 pounds in congressional money. When questioned on this by a member of Congress Franklin waved the question away and the matter was never brought up again.

by whatilearned March 30, 2022, 1:56 am

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