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#2) The US has the most billionaires, with 492.
#3) China, Russia, Germany, and Brazil have the next highest concentration of billionaires.
#4) Demographically, 90 percent of billionaires are male. 65 percent of them are white and 60 percent of them are 60 years old, or older.
#5) If Bill Gates, currently the richest man in the world, were a country, he would be the 65th richest country in the world.
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#6) Christy Walton is the richest woman in the world.
#7) Nine billionaires have 10 or more children.
#8) The female billionaire with the largest number of children, Savitri Jindal, has nine children.
#9) One billionaire has 23 children. That billionaire is Sulaiman Al Rajhi, the fifth richest person in Saudi Arabia.
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#10) Mark Zuckerberg has given a staggering $990 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundations.
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#11) One billionaire is named God. God Nisanov has a net worth of $5.3 billion. So Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. can all say that they have more money than God.
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#12) In 2012, Sheldon Adelson spent $93 million to try and keep President Obama from winning a second term in office.
#13) The same year, Oprah Winfrey donated $76,000 to Obama's Victory Fund.
#14) 42 percent of billionaires who earned their first billion before turning 40 did it in technology fields.
#15) Seven billionaires are openly gay or transgender. Jennifer Pritzker (formerly James) is the first transgender billionaire.
#16) Real estate tycoon Jeff Green's best man at his $1 million wedding was Mike Tyson.
#17) Stewart Rahr, a New York billionaire, has been banned from celebrity sushi chain Nobu.
#18) The oldest billionaire alive is 99-year-old David Rockefeller, Sr. He has one of the largest beetle collections in the world.
#19) French billionaire Vincent Bollore owns over 1,000 comic books.
#20) 30-year-old Facebook billionaire, Dustin Moskovitz, pitches his own tent at Burning Man every year.