According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.
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