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TIL Mansa Musa is the richest person that has ever lived. Simply valued as "Richer than anyone could describe" his sheer wealth dwarfs the $4.6 trillion of Augustus Caesar and the paltry $150 billion amassed by Jeff Bezos and the $100 billion scraped together by Bill Gates.

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