All of ur probably know Bill Gates from his tech background which made him a billionaire and is charity works. These are the main things people know him for but there are a few more things you may find interesting about this generous genius.
Business Insider and Inc. listed the following facts about Bill Gates:
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Charity comes naturally to Bill since his mother served United Way's board of directors
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Bill wrote his first code as a teenager in Lakeside Prep School. The program was written on a General Electric computer and was an electronic version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the machine.
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He was born William Henry Gates III. Trey was his childhood nickname.
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Bill read the entire "World Book Encyclopedia" during his teens.
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He also almost perfected his SATs with a score of 1590 out of 1600.
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In prep school, they let him write the program for scheduling students classes. Bill wrote the code so he ended up in classes with "disproportionate number of interesting girls".
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While still attending Lakeside School in Seattle, Bill started a company with Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert and developed their Traf-O-Data 8008 computer.
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Bill left Harvard just 2 years into the program to pursue his cream of writing a software for the new generation of Altair 8800 computers.He and Paul Allen started a company they called, "Micro-Soft".
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In 2007, 32 years after dropping out, Harvard gave Gates an honorary degree.
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Bill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2005 for his charitable works and belongs in the Order of KBE.
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Business Adventures by John Brooks published in 1969 is his favorite book.
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In 1977, Bill was arrested in New Mexico for driving without a license and running a red light.
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Bill wanted to be a millionaire by age 30. However, in 1987 at age 31, he became a billionaire. The youngest one until the record was broken by a 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in 2008.
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In 1994, he splurged $30.8 million at an auction to acquire the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo Da Vinci.
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The Codex Leicester now resides in Bill's $125 million estate called Xanadu.
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His biggest regret is not learning any foreign language.
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In 2010 he signed the Giving Pledge with fellow billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffett. It was a promise to give half of their wealth to charity.