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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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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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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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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