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50 Facts You Learned at School That Are Not Real

BEN FRANKLIN DISCOVERED ELECTRICITY WITH A KITE AND A KEY

One of history’s most brilliant and prolific inventors, Ben Franklin is arguably most famous for flying a kite fixed with a metal key during a thunderstorm to harness electricity. That almost certainly didn’t happen. The popular legend probably comes from a hypothetical key-on-kite-in-thunderstorm scenario Franklin wrote for a popular publication.

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