A Complete List of the Richest People Throughout History

Bill Gates

No rich list is complete without the inventor of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Now worth $100.8 billion, the PC founder donates a lot of his time (and more importantly, money) to causes like human rights and improving the quality of life for women and children worldwide.

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27,000 tress are cut down every day to become toilet paper.
North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.
In 2009, Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook, you were entitled to a free Whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a Whopper.
Bill Gates plans to donate 95% of his $81.1 billion dollar wealth to charity. That's about $77 billion dollars!

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.