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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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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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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India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors with a capacity to hold up to 168 cars. 600 staff maintain the home.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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Snoop Dogg makes $30,000 per week selling digital stickers of his face, joints, and more.
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