Thanks to an experiment performed by the Mythbusters, we know that even a much less powerful charge than an actual lightning strike would have fried Old Ben to a crisp. What is not up for debate, however, is the bit about him touching a charged key and getting a shock. Whether or not Franklin subsequently flew a kite in a lightning storm is a matter of some debate among historians. When the letter was published in France, French scientist Thomas-Francois Dalibard performed an experiment with a lightning rod proving Franklin's hypothesis correct. Most likely, the kite business was just a thought experiment that Franklin devised to determine whether lightning was indeed electricity (the existence of which people already knew about), proposing the idea in a letter to a friend. Double however, he also points out quite rightly that the historical fact of the situation pales in the face of the emotional and spiritual truth the story provides people.īut, as Mental Floss explains, the experiment definitely didn't happen that way, if it even happened at all. However, as Rabbi David Wolpe points out, there is no direct archaeological evidence that the Israelites were ever in Sinai. If you need more reminders, you can check out the SparkNotes.Īt any rate, while it might be easy to dismiss the more magical aspects of the story (sticks turning into snakes, angels of death, waterbending, and so on), you might similarly conclude that, well, it's likely that the Jewish people were held in servitude in Egypt for a while ( no, they did not build the pyramids) and then escaped or were let go and wandered around looking for a place to settle. The Jewish people are held in slavery in Egypt, Moses tells the Pharaoh "let my people go," there are some plagues, they walk across the sea, they wander in the desert, etc. The story might be familiar to you, as it is foundational to much of Western culture. However, according to The Straight Dope, suicide rates did not actually spike during October 1929, and those investors who did kill themselves largely didn't do so by jumping out windows. The idea is popular enough to have inspired a bizarre arcade game in 1982 in which you catch suicidal investors falling from the sky.
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