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Most people know three things about Bill Gates:
- He is one of the richest men in the world.
- He cofounded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft.
- He's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
But despite his philanthropic efforts and online presence, there are a lot of things about Gates that many are unaware of.
Here are 17 facts you probably didn't know about Bill Gates:
1. As a teen at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the machine.CBS/YouTubeSource: Science Museum
2. Once his school discovered Gates' coding abilities, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes. Gates slyly altered the code so he was placed in classes with a "disproportionate number of interesting girls."Doug Wilson/CORBIS
Source: Science Museum
3. Gates also read the entire "World Book Encyclopedia" series during his teenage years.ScrapeTV
Source: The Wall Street Journal
4. Gates scored a near-perfect 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs.AP
Source: Science Museum
5. Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout. He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft.William B. Plowman/Getty Images
Source: The Week
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