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TIL of Percy Ross, best known for his column, ‘Thanks a Million’ which ran in over 800 publications. He gave away his fortune, an estimated $20 to $30 million over a period of 17 years. Newspapers called him, “America’s Rich Uncle.” He died in 2001 at age 84, relatively unknown, just as he wished.
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TIL that in 2013 a climber found a box full of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds on a remote glacier on Mont Blanc. Authorities determined they were likely from an Indian plane that crashed there in 1966 and gave the climber half the gems (worth $169,000) to reward his honesty in turning them in.
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