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TIL Georgia Tann became a millionaire in the 1930s by babynapping poor people's children, falsifying birth records, and selling them to rich families out of state for upwards of $5,000 (around $91,000 today) such as Joan Crawford and wrestler Ric Flair's adoptive parents.

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