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TIL that Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 2 hours. He assured his commissioner that he had been working on it, but in reality he hadn't started. When his commissioner suddenly announced he would be visiting, Wright drew the plans in the time it took the commissioner to drive up.

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rRkE4 TIL that serial killer Edmund Kemper has lent his voice to at least 100 audiobooks, including Flowers in the Attic and the novelizations of the Star Wars trilogy.
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