He's the richest man in America (second-richest in the world right now), he co-founded one of the most successful tech companies of all time in Microsoft, and he's an extremely generous philanthropist through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
But there are a lot of things about Gates you probably didn't know.
Once his school realized Gates' proclivities for coding, they let him write the school's computer program for scheduling students in classes.
He even slyly altered the code so he was placed in classes with a "disproportionate number of interesting girls."
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Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout.