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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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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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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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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