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Benjamin Franklin Started a Debate Club at 21. It Became America's First Lending Library, Then a Museum You're Still Allowed to Touch.
Benjamin Franklin started a weekly debate club at 21 because he and his friends couldn't individually afford the books to argue from real reading. Pooling their money instead created the first successful lending library in the American colonies in 1731 -- practice creating the demand that built the institution.
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The Army Built Richland, Washington From a Town of a Few Hundred People in 1943. It Made the Plutonium for Nagasaki. The Cleanup Bill Is Now $578 Billion.
The Army built Richland, Washington from a town of a few hundred people in 1943 to produce the plutonium that went into the Nagasaki bomb...
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