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Mini-Stories : Volume 14

99% Invisible

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Benjamin Franklin's 'Economic Project'

Benjamin franklin was trying to ingratiate himself into french society. He stayed up really late, hanging out with all these important french people. According to some accounts, he was basically living like a college studentt and then one day, ben Benjamin franklin's in paris, and there's a loud noise outside his window,. And he wakes up, and he looks outside, and he sees that the sun is coming up, and it's six or seven a m  and this is a revelation Ben wrote an essay in the journal of paris called an economical project. Romen: "One cannot be more certain of any fact i saw it with my own eyes"

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