Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
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Jerry Seinfeld turned down US$5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the Seinfeld show for a tenth season.
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