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TIL the heiress to the In-N-Out fortune, Lynsi Snyder, has deliberately kept herself out of the public eye due to kidnapping attempts; one of which occurred while she was still a teenager in highschool.

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RKRw TIL the Golden Gate Bridge isn’t named for its own coloring but rather for the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, which was named so even before the California gold rush.
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