A Complete List of the Richest People Throughout History

Steven Spielberg

The Jurassic Park director is worth about $3.7 billion. He’s also directed Jaws, E.T., Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, and the entire Indiana Jones franchise.

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The More You Know

  • Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
  • After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark's Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.
  • Christian Bale studied Tom Cruise's mannerisms to prepare for his role as a psychotic killer in American Psycho.
  • The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
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