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Gates Is Powered by Diet Coke — Three or Four Cans a Day
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Bill Gates is famously fueled by Diet Coke. He has said that once he's at the office he typically cracks open a can and drinks three or four over the course of the day — a habit he estimated adds up to around 35 pounds of aluminum cans a year. The soft drink is such a fixture that it routinely appears beside him in interviews and on his Netflix series, a small, well-known quirk of one of the world's richest people.
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