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    One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
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    Dmitry Argakov
    Dmitry Argakov
    A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
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    India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors with a capacity to hold up to 168 cars. 600 staff maintain the home.
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    The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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    Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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    An experimental program in Canada in the 1970s gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.
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    A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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    Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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