Did you know microwaves were created by accident?

How about that in some of the first playgrounds you could be pulled around in a cart by a real goat?

I'm Joy Dolo, host of Forever ago, a history show for the whole family.

Every episode looks into the surprising and fascinating history of things we think are ordinary,

but they're not.

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forever ago where you get your podcasts. You. You know me as Benjamin Franklin, statesman, inventor, founding father, but back in 1720 when I was 14 years of age, I was just playing Ben. Of course even then I had a knack for getting into trouble with the powers that me.

Ah, Mr Benjamin Franklin, I presume. We meet at last and not a moment too soon. I was not usually in the habit of sacrificing myself for others.

And I knew from the moment I stepped into the governor's mansion, I was walking into the lion's

den and might never leave this house.

At least, not alive. Eliza, my dear child, it seems you have a champion in young Mr. Franklin.

Leave her alone. I'm the one you're looking for.

You're looking for trouble you are, and I mean to give it to you.

Patience Thaddeus, Mr Franklin is our guest.

Eliza, are you all right?

I...

She's perfectly fine.

Then let her go, you have no right to keep her.

Pen, please be careful.

Where is your loyalty, Felicity?

With my conscience, Dad.

Where's yours?

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