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TIL about Percy Ross, who for 17 years used a syndicated column called "Thanks a Million" to share his fortune with people who wrote in with good sob stories and in 1980, he offered $50 million to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in exchange for the U.S. hostages.

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