I used AI to find out what ben franklin wouldve looked like today!

Comparing Chris Chan to the Aeneid is gross and offensive and that commentator should apologize to CWC.

Whats the name of the first guy I vaguely recognise them lol

P sure fricking uggos as a "senior" (in those times) was nothing to sneeze at.

He was kind of a ladies man, actually. Despite his physical appearance, he was obviously a super intelligent and witty dude and didn’t have any trouble pulling butt.

Like seriously, nothing in common with a Redditor, dude was pretty high-T.

Also quite uncommon for a modern times, Benjamin Franklin learned five languages during his life—French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin.

Franklin was also a known womanizer, openly admitted to “intrigues with low women,” fathered at least one illegitimate son, and wrote a cheeky piece of “Advice to a young man on the choice of a mistress.”

Franklin arrived in Paris in 1776 just as he turned 70. The United States had just become a nation, and he had been sent over to serve as its commissioner to France. While he was there, even in his advanced years, he still charmed plenty of women At one ceremony, he was honored by 300 French women, who honored him by placing a crown of laurels on his head and kissing both his cheeks.

His s*x drive likely didn’t wane, either. A young composer and musician, Anne-Louise d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, caught his eye and he tried to seduce her, with no luck — she affectionately referred to him as "Cher Papa." Franklin then fell for and courted a rich noble widow named Madame Helvetius. She had an estate in the French countryside, where Franklin got very comfortable in the company of her and her guests. Franklin even proposed marriage to Madame Helvetius, but she turned him down.

He liked older broads because they were less trouble, sound reasoning.

In all your Amours, you should prefer old Women to young ones," he wrote. He also wrote, "The Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement." According to Franklin, older women are "so grateful."

But also:

In 1757, Franklin moved into an apartment in a London building owned by a widow named Margaret Stevenson. Margaret also lived there with her 18-year-old daughter, Polly. Some historians think Margaret and Franklin may have had an affair over the 15 years he lived under her roof. Others think Franklin may have tried to spark up a romance with Polly as well. He was reportedly fond of Polly, and he kept up a long correspondence with her. In his final years, he even had the widowed Polly move to Philadelphia to be by his side until his death in 1790.

One of Franklin's illegitimate children is well accounted for. In 1731, a year into Franklin’s marriage with Deborah Read, he had a son with one of his mistresses. Some historians believe the mother of the child was a woman named Barbara, a maid in Franklin’s house. Deborah accepted the child, William Franklin, into her home and raised him as her stepson. William grew up to be a political figure in his own right, becoming the governor of New Jersey. Deborah and Franklin also had two children of their own, a son who passed at the age of five due to small pox, and a daughter named Sally, who lived into her sixties.

Some historians, like Thomas A Foster, author of S*x and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past, think Franklin may have fathered 15 illegitimate children in his life; however, historians can't confirm any other details about his potential offspring.

He also created bifocals, swim fins, the electric stove, and Apple II.