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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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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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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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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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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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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