For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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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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Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
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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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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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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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