J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
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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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