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TIL that in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pitched a mystery story to an author, about a man trapped in a boring life, who dreams of running off with $5 million and starting over. 6 top mystery writers wrote a chapter each, and the book was published, and even turned into a movie in 1936

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