Two Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

A screenwriter's manual written in 1919 lists the 37 different types of stories, incl. "possessed of an ambition", "loving an enemy", "adultry with murder", and "an innocent suspected". [openculture.com]

Upon his death in 1790, Benjamin Franklin gave Boston and Philadelphia a small sum of money, a portion of which they couldn't use until 200 years after his death (when it had appreciated into millions of dollars). [mentalfloss.com]

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