Atlantic Trivia: The World’s Richest People

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From a story (opens in new tab) by Annie Lowrey

What American businessman and founder of Standard Oil became in the 1910s the country’s first billionaire?

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There’s a plaza that bears his name.

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And by the way, did you know that the 14th-century Malian king Mansa Musa—among the richest men ever to live—was so flush with gold that he showered it upon communities he passed along his pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1320s?

Alas, he lavished so much on Cairo that he accidentally distorted the regional economy there: The price of gold dropped—and stayed artificially low for a decade. No good deed!

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