Benjamin Franklin did not originate the idea of the lightning rod. It was discovered a thousand years earlier. He was probably years ahead of his time, and that's why Pierre-Paul de Riquet, Baron de Bonrepos, took on the construction of a canal linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic at his own expense. Local authorities, unconvinced of the feasibility of the project, refused to share in the cost. So Riquet built the 158-mile canal and paid $68 million in gold for it himself, and it's still in use today. Believe It or Not!
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