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TIL Leo Hirschfield, the Austrian-American inventor of both the Tootsie Roll & the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, committed suicide in 1923 after contracting a chronic illn... (www.wikipedia.org)
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Original Title: TIL Leo Hirschfield, the Austrian-American inventor of both the Tootsie Roll & the first commercially successful gelatin dessert mix, committed suicide in 1923 after contracting a chronic illness and his beloved wife was committed, leaving a note simply stating "Sorry, but could not help it."

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