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Make him tick?

Still, Franklin, who invented, among many other things, the lightening rod we now see regularly on top of tall buildings, was a great man. He left America a better place, as they say, than when he found it.

Anyways, Franklin’s love of people (white folks only, if you insist) is what made him tick.

All right?

OK, here are more examples for us to further examine what makes different people tick:

1. If you come across Nicola Sturgeon on a desert island, expect to find a “hot-headed, impulsive” character, blasting out a Cilla Black record and reading a biography of Lady Thatcher.

Don’t take my word for it.

Scotland’s first minister has appeared on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, so these choices of words, records and books are hers, not mine.

“My childhood obsession with the wonderful Cilla Black,” the SNP leader tells Kirsty Young, led to “the first ever tantrum I remember”.

Her mum and dad had said no when she asked if they would buy her Cilla’s new album.

But her “wonderful granddad” saved the day and bought it for her instead.

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It has been quite an 18 months for Nicola Sturgeon.

From losing Scotland’s referendum on independence, which left her “in floods of tears… totally and utterly devastated” to the euphoria of this year’s general election, where the SNP won every seat in Scotland bar three.