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    Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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    The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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    Dmitry Argakov
    Dmitry Argakov
    A man named Dmitry Argakov was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
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    The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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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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    Money Can Buy Happiness
    Money Can Buy Happiness
    Money can buy happiness, but researchers have found that its emotional well-being benefits max out at a salary of about 75K a year.
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    Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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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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