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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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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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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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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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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