There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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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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