"I found him standing on the street just staring at some electrical wires. And then when i'd asked him, what are you doing? He was looking at them shoes." "It's just some brother walking around without sneakes because he ran into the wrong people," she says of a man who turned out to be Benjamin franklin. 'You don't have to be afraid of i just wandered off'
How does lightning work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck break down the legendary science and inventions of Benjamin Franklin, live with chief editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Ellen Cohn and Benjamin Franklin himself!
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