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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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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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