Where there's a will there's a whim

A Portuguese aristocrat's bequest of his fortune to 70 total strangers is the latest in a line of unusual last wills and testaments. [...]

Instead, Luis Carlos de Noronha Cabral da Camara opted for setting a cat among the pigeons: 70 people listed in a Lisbon phone directory were contacted out of the blue after his death to be told he had made them his beneficiaries.

They had been chosen at random from the directory, in front of two witnesses at a registry office 13 years before. [...]

Fonte: BBC News