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Back on this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flies a kite in a thunderstorm.
Back on this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flies a kite in a thunderstorm. Franklin did the stunt to see if a key attatched to the string would draw an electrical current. Some historians, however, don't believe this ever happened.
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