Benjamin Franklin, n.Trivia

Ben Franklin never sought a patent for a single one of his many inventions, wanting instead to share them, "freely and gladly".

Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.

Benjamin Franklin knew the benefit of investing. When he died in 1790, he willed both Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990, Boston's trust was worth over $5 million.

Benjamin Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life until he visited a school for black children and discovered that African ignorance was not inherently natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative environments.

lightning rod. . . was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1749

Benjamin Franklin was president of an abolitionist society and required his daughter to free her slave in order to get her inheritance.

Benjamin Franklin is in the International Swimming Hall of Fame for a pair of swim fins he invented when he was 11-years old.

Benjamin Franklin became a vegetarian, in part because he could save half of what his brother paid him, to buy more books, he also considered the consumption of meat to be "unprovoked murder".

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1749.

Benjamin Franklin became a vocal advocate for inoculation after losing his oldest son to smallpox.