16 interesting facts about Bill Gates
- William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
- The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
- His SAT score was 1590. The top score for the test is 1600.
- He can donate US$15 to everyone on Earth but still be left with US $5 Million for his pocket money.
- By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
- Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.
- Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.
- If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on Earth.
- While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s first product.
- If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from Earth to Moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.
- He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
- Bill Gates is 54 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven or hell.
- In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tungin a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
- If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 days!
- He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.
- If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would’ve already earned it back.
