These Famous People Left The Strangest And Most Obnoxious Wills

Benjamin Franklin

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When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left his daughter 408 diamonds. There was a catch, though. She wasn’t allowed to turn them into jewelry “and thereby introduce… the expensive, vain, and useless fashion of wearing jewels in this country.”

Unfortunately, the country became pretty vain whether Franklin wanted it or not.