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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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 Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
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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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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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