7 As of 2007, Bill Gates had donated over $28 billion to charity and plans to donate a further 95% of his wealth to charity.

Bill Gates has cited David Rockefeller being a major influence in his charity work. The money Bill and Melinda Gates have donated until 2007 puts them in the second place among most charitable philanthropists of America. Also as of 2013, the Gates Foundation reportedly valued at $34.6 billion is considered the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation. Also, it’s the most transparent foundation as it allows its benefactors access to information about how the money is spent.(source)

8 Bill Gates once released mosquitoes during a presentation on malaria, saying “There’s no reason only poor should have this experience.”

During TED2009 conference in Long Beach, California, Bill Gates delivered a presentation on educating about malaria. He eradicated it and released mosquitoes. The media office at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation confirmed the incident and of course, the mosquitoes in question did not have any malaria. Finding vaccine for malaria is one of the Gates Foundation’s projects which also donated $168.7 million to the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative.(source)

9 The placeholder silhouette in Microsoft Outlook 2010’s People Pane is actually the silhouette of Bill Gates’ mugshot when he was arrested in 1977.

A fallback image/picture is a default generic silhouette used in the place of a contact’s picture when there is no image available or there has been an error. This Bill Gates’ mugshot silhouette was used as a fallback image. The image was taken in Albuquerque, Mexico, back in 1977 for some unknown driving offense.(source)

10 Bill Gates said that he would only leave $10 million to each of his children so that they will find their own way. 

In an interview, Bill Gates revealed that his children would only receive a small inheritance. They will receive a very good education, but like all normal children, they will have to earn their income. He also stated that he drives himself a normal Mercedes, there is a Porsche for the family and a minivan when all five of them go out.(source)

11 Bill Gates had written a letter to Steve Jobs, while he was suffering from cancer. Then, Steve Jobs kept it at his bedside. 

While Steve Jobs was dying of cancer, Bill Gates paid him a visit during which they had spent hours reminiscing and talking about the future. Later, Gates wrote him a letter telling him how great he should feel about all the work he did and the company he built. After Jobs’ death, his wife called Gates telling him how his biography doesn’t depict the “mutual respect they have for each other and that Jobs appreciated the letter and kept it by his bed.”(source)

12 In 2013, Bill Gates revealed that the command ctrl+alt+del was a mistake. It was supposed to be a single button instead. 

Gates said that the command had been designed to prevent applications from showing a fake login prompt to the users and steal passwords. It ended up being a combination of three keys instead of a single button because the person who designed the keyboard provide a single button. It was David Bradley, an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC, who designed it. Bradley created that combination to be used for rebooting a PC.(source)