February 07, 2024
Ben Franklin was an early advocate for swimming as a health activity. When Franklin was about 20 years old and living in England, a nobleman offered to pay him to teach his kids how to swim. Franklin wrote that he was tempted to stay in England and open a swimming school but instead returned to Philadelphia. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.
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