Four-time boxing champ Evander “The Real Deal”
Holyfield reportedly made over $250 million in cash during his
boxing career, but despite this he reportedly is flat broke.
Holyfield lost all his money by making “smart”
business decisions look really foolish. You thought buying a house
was a smart move? It normally is, but not when you buy a house
the size of Rhode Island.
Holyfield bought a $20 million house with over 54,000
square feet and 109 rooms. The house has 11 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms,
a movie theater, a bowling alley and an Olympic-size swimming
pool. Imagine how much it must cost to cut the grass on all 235
acres! You could buy a Range Rover with the electric bill payment
alone.
OSLO, Norway – Two years after receiving its first deposits,
a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed
half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse
repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday.
Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed
collection, which is 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North
Pole, said the facility now houses at least one-third of the world's
crop seeds.
Located in Norway's remote Svalbard archipelago, the Svalbard
Global Seed Vault is a safeguard against wars or natural disasters
wiping out food crops around the globe. It was opened in 2008
as a master backup to the world's other 1,400 seed banks, in case
their deposits are lost.
War wiped out seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and another
bank in the Philippines was flooded in the wake of a typhoon in
2006. The Svalbard bank is designed to withstand global warming,
earthquakes and even nuclear strikes.
Two-time PGA major champ John Daly gambled away between $50 and
$60 million in career earnings, according to his 2006 autobiography.
Daly once lost $1.65 million in five hours playing
the slot machines at a casino. If you think that’s impressive,
there’s more. Daly blew $1.2 million in a mere two hours
and 30 minutes at a casino in Las Vegas.
He just had his $1.6 million house foreclosed on.
Did Daly quit gambling after blowing so much cash at the casino
tables? Not by a long shot. Instead, he decided to downgrade from
the $5,000 slot machines to the $100 and $500 machines. It looks
in John Daly’s world, that is considered sound financial
planning.
