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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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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Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
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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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The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.
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