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TIL That in 1762, Benjamin Franklin had a hollow walking stick created that could secretly hold ~1 pint of oil in it. When the head of the stick was pushed down, it would release oil from the bottom. He did this to trick his friends into thinking he had the power to calm waves in troubled waters.
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TIL the phrase “to pour oil on troubled waters,” i.e., to settle a dispute, originated with Ben Franklin’s 1773 demonstration that a teaspoon of oil could calm a pond. When Franklin calmed political factions in Pennsylvania it was compared to his famous demonstration, and the phrase was born.
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