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 first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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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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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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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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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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Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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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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