A U.S. Mint error created what’s now known as the “Bugs Bunny” Franklin Half Dollar. If you ever run into one, it could make ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

In 1743, Benjamin Franklin's observation of a storm that contradicted surface wind direction led to the realization that ...

We don’t like people who are nice to us. We like people to whom we are nice. This quirk of human nature, known as the Ben Franklin Effect, explains a lot about how relationships work, and how we might ...