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    Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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    Rick Harrison of the hit reality show Pawn Stars, dropped out of high school in 10th grade because he was making $2000 a week selling fake Gucci bags.
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    A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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    The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2 million.
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    For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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    CEO takes over company worth $9m, fires management, gives power to employees, and now makes over $200m
    Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.
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    In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they gave him).
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    In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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