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TIL: Mansa Musa was an African Muslim king, whose 4,000-mile trip to Mecca accompanied by a caravan of 60,000 people and thousands of servants. Historians believe that he is the richest man in the worlds history - with an inflation-adjusted fortune, his wealth amounts to around $400 billion today.

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