A Complete List of the Richest People Throughout History

Warren Buffet

The finance king of Berkshire Hathaway is worth an estimated $89.9 billion. He has promised to donate at least half of his entire fortune by the end of his lifetime.

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The More You Know

  • The first breakfast cereal had to be soaked overnight before it could be eaten.
  • February used to be the last month of the year.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
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