9 Billionaires You'd Mistake For Crazy Homeless People Based On These Facts
Yes, Steve Jobs really used to soak his feet in toilets.
Billionaires are a strange breed.
We all know Richard Branson as the lovably eccentric force behind Virgin, but not all billionaires' eccentricities are quite so lovable. In fact, most of them regularly behave like homeless people or hyperactive children who have enormous piles of money lying at home that they keep forgetting about. Washing your feet in the toilet? That's homeless AF. Being named "God"? Yeah, you have that in common with the mentally unstable gentleman who hangs out on the bench outside my apartment.
Thanks to the internet, and particularly Forbes, we get to peek into the everyday lives of the world's elite class of rich-ass mofos—from their great, highly-publicized philanthropic efforts to their weird personal rituals. Here are some of the most interesting, weirdest facts about today's billionaires.
1. Elon Musk describes himself as "nauseatingly pro-American" and believes the USA is "[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth"
Damn, Elon Musk sounds like the most American American who's ever lived in America. Just like every redneck I've ever known.
2. Steve Jobs used to soak his feet in toilets
Yep, this was his very repulsive way of relieving stress. In fact, his personal hygiene was so bad, when he worked for Atari, the company forced him to work the nightshift so no one would have to encounter his stink.
3. Carlos Alberto Sicupira "holds multiple world records for underwater spearfishing"
I didn't know spearfishing was a thing you could get a world record in, but Sicupira just keeps rackin' them up.
4. Jeff Greene, the real estate mogul, choose Mike Tyson to be the best man at his wedding
Why? Because he's rich AF and can afford to have Mike Tyson as his best man, that's why.
5. David Rockefeller has a collection of over 160,000 beetles
Hey, the guy loves insects. Sure, he could feed every homeless person in America for months with his wealth, but it's none of your business what he does with the money he inherited.
6. Dustin Moskovitz, cofounder of Facebook, is really into Burning Man
Reportedly, he even pitches his own tent. No word on what kinds of drugs he consumes, though.
7. Sulaiman Al Rajhi has 23 children
Okay, we get it. You're wealthy AF and extremely potent—a real man's man. If I were one of those kids, though, I'd be pissed I'll have to eventually share the fortune with 22 other worthless fools.
8. Stewart Rahr once got banned from a sushi restaurant for throwing a temper tantrum
Apparently, he came to the restaurant to find "a group sitting at what he considered his table" and proceeded to flip out. If that isn't the weirdest combination of poor idiot and weird rich guy behavior of all time, I don't know what is.
9. This billionaire's name is literally God
God Nisanov, to be exact. Sounds like something a crazy person you'd encounter on the street would name himself.