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TIL Karl Marx left a meagre estate worth only £250 or £25K in today's money upon his death despite being extremely famous. However, he had befriended German writer Friedrich Engels throughout his lifetime whom upon his death left Marx's daughters an inheritance worth $4.8 million.

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