Benjamin Franklin in Podcasts

Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were all named first, and it was Adams who suggested that the young and little-known Thomas Jefferson join them, because they needed a man from the influential Virginia delegation, and Adams thought Jefferson was a much better writer than he was.

Yeah, I have a couple different emotions about that actually. Ben Franklin actually has a letter he wrote to a friend of his in the 1750s where he was complaining how he had carried all these experiments to prove that it was actually electricity and lightning in the ocean causing bioluminescence, but actually he has come to the conclusion that it's just some unknown living being we can't see.