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TIL In 2003, Matt White, a minor league pitcher, purchased a parcel of land from his elderly aunt for $50,000. The land, he later discovered, contained a rock quarry of Goshen stone - a substance commonly used in sidewalks - with a market value of over $2 billion.

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