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    According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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    Nintendo has banked so much money, they could run a deficit of over $250 million every year and still survive until 2052.
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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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    An experimental program in Canada in the 1970s gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.
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    Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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    In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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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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    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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