What can you buy for $16 billion? That kind of money can get you 320,000 Tesla Model S cars, almost 64,002,560 copies of ‘Titanfall Collector’s Edition,’ 32,000,000,000 wings on half off wing night, 16 Instagrams in 2012, three years of making it rain in the club, and 329 Paul McCartney divorce settlements.
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