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TIL Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect abandoned his wife and six kids and ran away to Europe with a married woman. Later, his servant killed Frank Lloyd Wright’s mistress, the two children Frank Lloyd Wright had with her and four of their friends and set fire to their compound.

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