At famous La Scala in Milan, Giovanni Battista Rubini, the Italian operatic tenor, sang one high note with such tremendous force, he broke his collarbone. One of the genuinely high points of drama is the reading of the will, particularly when there's a lot of money at stake. Capitan Ferrer, a rich French industrialist, played this drama to the hilt. He was so disturbed by the greed and impatience of his human heirs, he devised one of the strangest wills in history, one that led to hotly contested legal battles. Ferrer, you see, left a fortune in coal mines and textile mills in Alsace to a leech. Believe It or Not!
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