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13 surprising facts about Bill Gates

Dave SmithFeb 8, 2015, 23:45 IST

He's the richest man in America (second-richest in the world right now), he co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft, and he's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

But there are a lot of things about Gates you probably didn't know.