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Toronto’s “Stork Derby” Happened Because Of A Very Wealthy Lawyer’s Very Strange Will

This week in 1926, a will left behind by a very unusual lawyer in Toronto led to a ten year baby-having contest nicknamed the “Stork Derby.”

The Michigan Tycoon Who Made His Descendants Wait 92 Years To Inherit His Fortune

Wellington R. Burt was once among the wealthiest people in America - but when he died, he made sure the heirs to his enormous fortune would have to wait a long, long time.