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Little Known Facts About Celebrities
Topic Started: Jul 31 2016, 05:48 PM (60 Views)
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Alden Richards wants to give back by putting up a charity foundation. Nice dude!
http://ow.ly/I3hz302INeU

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Warren Buffet, one of the richest Americans in the world, only invest in American companies.

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22 mind-blowing facts about Warren Buffett and his wealth
By Kathleen Elkins
FROM: http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-warren-buffett-2015-9

Warren Buffett was picking out stocks at 11 years old — and he amassed the equivalent of $53,000 in today's dollars by the time he was 16.

Today, the 85-year-old investing legend has an estimated net worth of over $70 billion, according to Forbes, making him the third richest man in the world.

Buffett's legendary career all began with an epiphany at age 10 when he was on a trip to New York City with his dad.

Dining with a member of the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) planted the idea in young Buffett's head to organize his life around money.

When Buffett was a teen, he was already raking in about $175 a month — more than his teachers (and most adults). He pulled this off by dutifully delivering the Washington Post. Paper delivery was just one of many small businesses teenage Buffett orchestrated: He sold used golf balls and stamps, buffed cars, set up a pinball machine business, and turned a horse track into a lucrative playground.

He was rejected from Harvard Business School. Buffett, confident he nailed his admissions interview, had already told a friend, "Join me at Harvard."

"I looked about 16 and and emotionally was about nine," he recalled of the in-person interview. Forced to look elsewhere, he settled on Columbia University, which only required a written application and no interview.

His idol refused to hire him the first time he applied. Buffett originally wanted to work with his idol, and author of "The Intelligent Investor," Benjamin Graham, but Graham rejected him because he wasn't Jewish.

Buffett wouldn't take no for an answer, and continued pitching Graham ideas until he eventually hired him.

His house is a humble five-bedroom in Omaha, Nebraska that he bought in 1956 for $31,500. If you want to be Buffett's neighbor, the house across the street will cost you about $2.15 million.

Buffett doesn't keep a computer on his desk, and he chooses to use a flip phone rather than a smartphone. The most high-tech gadget you'll find in his office is a land line. In fact, he's only sent one email in his life, to Jeff Raikes of Microsoft. Buffett has successfully evaded technology over the years.

His distance from technology leaves him time for bridge, which he plays about 12 hours a week. Oftentimes, his bridge partner is Bill Gates. When he's not playing bridge, he's reading. "I just sit in my office and read all day," he says. He spends 80% of his day reading.

He drinks an alarming amount of Coca-Cola each day. Buffett loves his cherry coke. The business magnate is a notoriously unhealthy eater: "If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday."

He also likes to double-fist salt shakers, and don't put it past him to enjoy a bowl of ice cream for breakfast.

99% of Buffett's wealth was earned after his 50th birthday. Among investing legends, Buffett has the longest track record for beating the market. The longevity of Buffett's outperformance is greater than that of other savvy investors, such as David Einhorn and Walter Schloss.

$1,000 invested in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1964, when Buffett took over the company and shares cost just $19, would be worth about $11.6 million dollars today. Buffett took the failing textile company and turned it into a legendary conglomerate.

Buffett's net worth is greater than the GDP of Uruguay. Uruguay's 2014 GDP was estimated to be $57,471,277,325.

Buffett has so far donated enough money in his lifetime to build four Apple 'Spaceship' Campuses, which are $5 billion endeavors. The Apple Campus, one of the last major projects Steve Jobs worked on, is a futuristic-looking company campus that will feature curved glass panels, an underground parking lot, a private auditorium for keynotes and product launches, and a 360-degree view of nature.

Buffett has donated a lifetime total of $20 billion — the second-highest amount (following that of Bill Gates). Buffett has donated billions of dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2013, Buffett made on average $37 million per DAY — that's more than what Jennifer Lawrence made the entire year. According to Forbes, Jennifer Lawrence was the second-highest-paid actress in 2013, and she is estimated to have made $34 million that year. Warren Buffett made $37 million per day in 2013.

The multi-billionaire reportedly earns only $100,000 a year at Berkshire Hathaway — and spends it frugally.

People are so fascinated with the legendary Buffett that they'll spend millions of dollars to eat lunch with him. Buffett's lunch place of choice, Smith & Wollensky.
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Buffett has been auctioning off a "power lunch" since 2000 at his charity event for GLIDE Foundation.

The highest bidder gets to bring up to seven people to dine with the steak-loving business magnate at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in Manhattan, and the most recent winner paid $2,345,678.

He doesn't think money equals success: 'I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lovable.'
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Bill and Melinda Gates have given away over $29 billion, more money than anyone in the history of humanity. Buffett presented Gates the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy at the annual FORBES 400 Summit on Philanthropy. Buffett won the philanthropy award the first time it was presented two years ago. Last year the Oracle of Omaha (a title given to Buffett) presented it to Chuck Feeney, a former billionaire committed to going broke on philanthropy, who both Buffett and Gates see as an inspiration. It is Gates’ energy and passion that convinced Buffett to pledge the bulk of his $70 billion fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, combining the philanthropic efforts of the two richest men in America and two of the greatest philanthropists of all time. :clap:
For a HAPPY LIFE, keep your MIND FULL and your BOWELS EMPTY. ;-)
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In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, "Who's the Boss?" star Danny Pintauro revealed he's been HIV-positive for 12 years, and spoke out about the dangers of crystal meth.

Bill Gates said that he always gives the laziest people the hardest jobs, because they'll find the easiest way to do it.

The Queen of England owns a McDonald's restaurant.

Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame bought himself an ice cream truck which he uses to give away ice cream to children.

I just read that Jennifer Lawrence said she doesn't wash her hands after going to the bathroom. What a turn-off. EWWW! :batok:

Daniel Craig said "I'd rather slash my wrist than make another Bond movie." :ngisi:

American celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain at Jollibee Bluebay Macapagal.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is giving away $15 million to environmental causes:
http://buff.ly/1ltnMCS
He also drives a Toyota Prius, an environmentally-friendly car. He is rich and frugal, practicing the kind of financial restraint and budgetary austerity you'd sooner expect from your centavo-pinching granny. He did shell out more than $2 million for his own island in Belize. Here is a classic quote from the actor:
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I don't fly private jets. I still have only one car, and that's a Toyota Prius. I don't spend money on a lot. Money is very important to me because it allows me the freedom to choose what I want to do as an actor and most importantly because I want to accumulate enough so that one day I can do something really great and beneficial for other people, for the environment, or for children.


According to http://ind.pn/20exDME David Bowie turned down Coldplay collaboration because their song was rubbish. :lolol: I knew there's a reason why I don't like Coldplay.

Tom Hardy admits: 'I've had sexual relations with men'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1298384/Inception-hunk-Tom-Hardy-admits-Ive-sexual-relations-men.html
He wasn't even coy about revealing the whole thing as if it is a normal thing for him. But he said it doesn't work for him anymore so he is sticking with women.
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Britain's finance minister and tech billionaire Bill Gates unveiled Monday a plan to spend billions to eradicate "the world's deadliest killer" malaria. Chancellor George Osborne and Gates announced a £3 billion ($4.28 billion, 4 billion euros) fund for research and to support efforts to eliminate the mosquito-borne disease. More details here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3415041/Britain-Bill-Gates-announce-3-billion-fight-malaria.html

Kristen Stewart is gay (or perhaps bi)?
From ExtraTV.com:
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The other woman is French singer Soko.
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George Lucas having lunch in a food court in Australia
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Filipino chess grandmaster Wesley So kicked off the 2016 Grand Chess Tour in as grand a fashion imaginable, defeating reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen on time Thursday, June 9 at La Maison de la Chimie in Paris, France. So, 22, of Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines, managed the win after the Norwegian Carlsen reportedly froze while in a winnable position and ceded the victory to the world's no. 10 rated player.

Carlsen outplayed So in the 2015 Sinquefield Cup in the slower classical chess format, which affords players 90 mins each to make 40 moves with 30 seconds increment, then 60 minutes each to finish the game.

Eugene Torre is the only other Filipino to defeat a world champion, accomplishing the feat in July 1976, when he forced then titleholder Anatoly Karpov to resign in a tournament at the Philamlife Auditorium. In between draws and losses, Torre beat Karpov again in London in 1984.
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The Manila Polo Club and the Manila Golf Club are among the most elite clubs in the Philippines. They reaffirmed this recently when they reportedly denied the membership of Manny Pacquiao, the Philippines’ most popular and richest athlete.

To these clubs, it doesn’t matter that Pacquiao earns gazillion dollars for each fight and that he had actually bought a $388 million house in the country’s enclave of the richest, Forbes Park. A house in Forbes Park alone should qualify you to be a member of God’s inner circle but apparently to these clubs, they’re off limits to a noveau riche like Pacquiao. Never mind that Pacquiao earned his riches and stature — he is a congressman (well, senator now), by the way — by working hard. Never mind that he is an inspiration to the Filipino youth.

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James Reid is pro-same sex marriage and supports Duterte's war on drugs. Love him even more now, eh fans?

Read a blip online about Orlando Bloom belonging to team uncut :sneer:
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I once met Selena Gomez. She played the state fair of my state and a group of my friends saw her live. Her mom and step dad were next to us in the concert and were like "hey, wanna meet Selena? and we were like "Sure, why not?" I didn't really care for her music but the girl is TINY. Like, ridiculously tiny and thin with the biggest fucking head I've ever seen. She seemed more stoked to see us than we were to see her because we were actually her age as opposed to being, you know, like, six.
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"The Avengers" actress, Scarlett Johansson, is so short as hell. About 5'3"? You really can't tell that she is that short when watching her movies. Good camera tricks! :clap:
There is no "I" in 'HAPPYNESS". DuH!
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