Benjamin Franklin’s Bright Idea - Decades TV Network

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Often taken for granted in today’s modern world, electricity lights up our lives and provides us endless possibilities and advantages. And it’s all thanks to one of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, who had the bright idea to fly a kite in the midst of a lightning storm on June 15, 1752.

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