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TIL at UC Berkeley, when your PhD dissertation is submitted and approved you get a lollipop.

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QYyE TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
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