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Ben Franklin: Founding Father of Microfinance and Open-Source Tech
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Franklin's Last Bet - The Bequest to Boston and Philadelphia
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Franklin is probably the first person to found a university and then cut it completely out of its will. He founded the Philadelphia Academy, which went on to become the University of Pennsylvania. In his Coda sale, he added 10 months before he died, he takes 2,000 pounds. The British dollar was not yet official currency. But he took this money and he put it in two pots. One goes to Boston, 1,000 pounds sterling, one goes to the city of Philadelphia,.
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