21Introvert guy
Bill Gates was an introvert, even, he has said, antisocial, and his original plan was to teach math. “When I was in high school I thought, ‘Hey, I’m a good student and therefore I should go be like a professor of mathematics.”
22Nickname
Bill Gates is the fourth of his name in his family but is known as William Gates III or "Trey" (i.e., three) because his father had the "II" suffix.
23Hacking Airplane
In the early 1980s, when he was late to catch a plane, Bill Gates hacked the control panel at San Francisco International Airport gate and got the plane to come back.
24Xanadu 2.0
Bill Gates's 66,000-square-foot mansion is nicknamed "Xanadu 2.0" after the character estate in Citizen Kane.
25Color-blind
In a 2006 interview, Bill Gates revealed that he is color-blind.
26Bill Gates
In 1998, Bill Gates was earning $1 million per hour (almost $300 per second).
27Sorting pancakes
Bill Gates' only scientific paper ever was about sorting pancakes.
