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Some interesting facts about Bill Gates
I took some time to compile some cool facts about Bill Gates.

- Bill Gates' SAT score was 1590 out of 1600. Though Bill has no college degree, he was a sort of genius at maths and coding back then.
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- He was enrolled at Harvard but dropped out in 2 years to start Micro-soft with Paul Allen.
- Bill Gates continued to fly coach until 1997, when his net worth was already US$36 billion.
- Bill Gates is a philanthropist, has donated $28 billion so far.
- Bill Gates' Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
- Six million lives saved by Gates’s foundation with vaccines and better healthcare.
- Bill Gates' children will only inherit US$10 million each, just a fraction of his $88 billion net worth. "Leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them," he says.
- Bill Gates aimed to become a millionaire by the age of 30. However, he became a billionaire at 31.
- Bill Gates Sponsors a Machine That Turns Poop Into Drinking Water. Yup, that's poop water (machine cleaned) that he is drinking.
- Bill Gates was arrested in New Mexico in 1977 for jumping a red light and driving without a licence.
- When Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
- Bill Gates doesn't know any foreign languages. That, he says, is his biggest regret in life thus far.
- Once his school realized Gates' proclivities for coding, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes. He even slyly altered the code so he was placed in classes with a "disproportionate number of interesting girls."
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There are few more least known facts about Bill Gates

