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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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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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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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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