J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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Every year, Louis Vuitton burn all their unsold bags. They burn them in order to prevent them from being priced lower.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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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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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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