
Before the age of tech billionaires, industrial tycoons built fortunes of a scale the world had never seen. One man is widely recognised as the first to officially cross the ten-figure mark.
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What was the name of the digital cash system created by David Chaum in 1989, often considered the first attempt at electronic money?
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Which fictional Scrooge-like character famously utters the phrase 'Please, sir, I want some more' in a Charles Dickens novel about poverty?
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Should the UK make it compulsory for pubs to keep at least one 'chatty table' for solo drinkers to combat loneliness?
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Which English mathematician and cleric first proposed the reformed grave calendar adopted as the Gregorian in a 1582 treatise submitted to Rome?
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Which forgotten British engineer designed the world's first successful passenger-carrying hovercraft, the SR.N1, tested across the English Channel in 1959?
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Rank these infamous currency collapses from earliest to most recent.
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