What are some facts about Benjamin Franklin?

Question

I'm watching a discussion on him on C-Span with his greatest scholars, and moderated by Jim Leher. There are people on the panel who have spent their life studying and writing about him and all I know is that he's on the back of the 100 dollar bill. Anything else you guys know about him?? or even about his personality?

Answer 1

He was the Bald Beatle, he played guitar and was huge player of the ladies.

Answer 2

I read somewhere or heard somewhere that after he invented the lightning rod from flying that kite in the middle of a storm, he had an electric fence around his house.  So that sounds cool right?  Even better the story goes that he always had it turned on because he liked to walk around the house naked.  He would always know when to get dressed because someone would get a slight shock when they opened the gate.  Whether that's a fact or not...I mean it just sounds cool.  

Besides that he wrote Poor Richards Almanac, flew the kite, invented about a hundred items, made the lightning rod, was a Quaker, and his son was a Loyalist (pro-Brit during the Revolution).

He may also have grown the sweet stuff in his yard and partaken in a few tokes, although that is just something I heard and is probably untrue.

Answer 3

He had one son.

Was US ambassador to France.

He was a self made man.

Started out as a printer.

Answer 4

He was not buried next to his parents and I dont know the reason for that.

Answer 5

-he was part of the signing of the declaration of independence

-he was like the john Locke but of America, encouraging Americans to rise up against the british