A fortune for the most babies
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A Toronto lawyer died in 1926 and left his entire fortune to whichever woman in the city produced the most children in the ten years after his death. It was not a joke, it was a valid will, it survived every attempt to overturn it, and it set off a decade-long race that the newspapers called the Stork Derby.
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