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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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 first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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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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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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