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TIL Peter Sellers' estranged wife inherited his fortune upon his death, his children got only 800 Pounds each. She refused to increase the amount even after a mutual acquaintance intervened. Incidentally, Sellers' son died 26 years to the day after his father, from the same cause (heart attack).

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