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TIL of socialite Ida Wood - Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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In 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later

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[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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