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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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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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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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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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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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