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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN!!!

1.﻿Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence, published the Poor Richard's Almanack, and invented useful objects such as the lightning rod.

2.Poor Richard's Almanack- was a almanac that was published by Ben Franklin, that was written by a person named Richard Saunders or Poor Richard - a fake name Ben F. made up - was a pamphlet or book that tells weather forecasts and having alot of power of the truth. 1739 Edition of Poor Richard's Almanac

3. Benjamin Franklin the swimmer- when Ben was nineteen, he became an excellent swimmer. He even thought about making a swimming school for all ages. He wanted that, because he went on a boat trip with his printer friends, and during the trip he swam to the Thames River all the way to Blackfriars.

4.When Benjamin Franklin was twenty-one, he found and built the colonies' first library for all of the citizens. There were a collection of fossils, stuffed snakes, and a dead pelican to show natural history for the library.

5.Ben was forty-five when he started his inventions in electricity. In Ben's first five years of experiments he didn't no alot of math, but he was studing another subject. All of his early inventions were created by hand with regular objects including: gun barrels, wax plates, and glass tubes.

6.Benjamin Franklin became so obsessed with his electric experiments, that he sold his printing bussiness to focus on the experiments. He could gather his money he had for the printing bussiness, but he loved his life, he had no aspiration, and he was wealthy, but he didn't want to show his wealth to other people.

7.Franklin was the chief delegate in the Albany Congress of 1754, the first huge important conference to discuss a confederacy of the colonies. When Ben retured from Albany,New York, he wrote a book called "Short Hints Towards a Scheme for Uniting the Northern Colonies". The Pennslyvania Gazette printed a snake into eight pieces to represent: "NY, NJ, P, V, M, NC,SC,NE" "JOIN OR DIE".they represented nine of the thirteen colonies to JOIN the army or DIE if you don't choose to.__

__8. This is the question everyone ask: WHY IS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON THE $100 BILL? I know the answer!__ __It's because he was the most important Founding Father. He invented everything important that we have today__ __Of couse, this is the $100 dollar bill with Benjamin Franklin's face on it. Everybody we should thank Benjamin Franklin for everything he has invented and done for us. Hallelujah! Thank you Benjamin Franklin!

My sources were the internet(google,ask, and wikipedia).