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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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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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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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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‘Qatar’ is the world's most expensive bar of soap. Infused with gold and diamond powder, it costs a squeaky clean $2,800.
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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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