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The combined wealth of top 85 richest
people is equal to the half of the world's Population
Almost half of the world's wealth is now owned by 85 peoples (which is
equal to just 1% of world's population). This would resulted political capture
and economic inequality. The World Economic Forum has identified economic
inequality as a major risk to human progress and impact of social stability.
1.
In 1983, the
first mobile phones went on sale in the US at almost $4,000 each which
translates close to into Rs 2.5 lakh today.
2.
90 percent of
mobile phones in Japan are waterproof because youngsters use them even in the
bathroom.
3.
In the year 2012
Apple sold more than 340,000 iPhones per day, which is around 4 per second.
4.
Former
Motorola inventor Martin Cooper made the first handheld mobile phone call on a
prototype DynaTAC model on April 4, 1973.
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