10 Facts That Explain How Ludicrously Rich Bill Gates Is

Bill Gates is far, far richer than you. And in case you needed a reminder, here are 10 facts that better demonstrate just how insanely rich he is.

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Bill Gates earns $250 every second. That's about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year.

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If Bill Gates dropped a thousand dollars, it wouldn't be worth his time to pick it up because he will have made it back within 4 seconds.

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The US national debt is about $5.62 trillion dollars. If Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself it would be paid off in 10 years.

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If Bill Gates gave everyone on Earth $10, he'd still have $2.26 billion left.

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If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth. There are 196 countries.

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If you changed all of Bill Gate's money to $1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years and use a total of 713 Boeing 747 planes to transport all the money.

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At a spending rate of $1 million a day, it would take Bill Gates 218 years to spend all his money.

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Bill Gates pays $1 million per year in property taxes for his house.

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If Michael Jordan didn't drink and eat, and kept up his annual income, he'd have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

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Bill Gates has donated more than $26 billion of his money. Currently 1,645 of the 7.125 billion people in the world have made $1 billion dollars.

 

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