🤑 Stat of the Day: The world has a record 3,028 billionaires, collectively worth $16.1 trillion, according to Forbes' World Billionaires List published yesterday.

• Elon Musk ($342 billion) currently ranks as the richest person on Earth, and the first whose net worth has topped $300 billion.
• Mark Zuckerberg ($216 billion), Jeff Bezos ($215 billion), Larry Ellison ($192 billion), and Bernard Arnault ($178 billion) round out the top five.

The rich are getting richer: Compared to last year, Forbes found the global billionaire population grew by 247 individuals (+9%) and added a collective ~$2 trillion in wealth (+14%). The US leads all countries with 902 billionaires, followed by China (and Hong Kong) with 516 and India with 205.

🤔 Did You Know? As an April Fools’ Day prank in 1957, the BBC aired a three-minute feature about a Swiss town near Italy that had an exceptionally heavy “spaghetti crop,” complete with footage of people picking spaghetti strands off trees and bushes.

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