The Forbes billionaire list just came out. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world for the 13th year in a row, with a net worth of $56 billion. That's $56,000,000,000
Bill can buy any of the following:
+ 200,000 Lamborghinis
+ 4,516 shiny new Learjets
+ 33 Space Shuttles
+ 203 Airbus A380s
+ 47 Sears Towers
+ 42% of the International Space Station
+ 1.6 million kilos of cocaine
+ Bill can buy the most expensive home in America 448 times over ($125 million, Palm Beach, owned by Donald Trump)
+ 12 Nimitz class aircraft carriers
+ 193 of the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM Blue Gene/L)
+ 378,000 heart transplants, or 622,000 kidney transplants, or 1.3 million triple bypasses
+ 195 movie productions (Bill could have produced Cleopatra, the most expensive movie ever made, 195 times; when adjusted for inflation, Cleo cost $286.4 million; Titanic was $247 million)
+ Tuition for 1.5 million college students (at George Washington University, the most expensive college in the U.S.)
+ Bill can afford to attend every NASCAR Nextel Cup race for the next 31,000,000 years. Or he could see just a few races, and eat a lot of hot dogs.
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