9 Things You Didn't Know About Benjamin Franklin

He was also an adept amateur mathematician, who created the magic circle (variation on the magic square):

http://www.pasles.org/circle.html

My favorite aphorism is a ripoff of "might makes right." He wrote, "Force shites on reason."

He also enjoyed nude "air baths".

Yeah, Hellfire rules.

He also did not actually ever conduct the "kite attached to a key in a thunderstorm" experiment, and did not write many of the aphorisms in the Poor Richard's Almanac, but lifted them from other writers of the time, sometimes leaving them as is, sometimes making them more memorable by giving them coarseness or succinctness.

And this is totally unverified, but he attended meetings of a friend's "Hellfire Club," where they participated in orgies.

yeah.