In Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
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Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.
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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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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.
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Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
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