Pablo Escobar at the height of his empire, was earning money faster than it could physically be stored.
The reportedly pulled in about $420 million every week. Cash piled up in warehouses, stacked floor to ceiling, with no banking system willing or able to handle it.
The strange part? A huge chunk of that fortune was literally destroyed by nature. Rats chewed through bundles of bills, moisture ruined stacks, and billions were lost annually to damage no one bothered tracking. On average, millions vanished every single day.
They even spent thousands monthly just on rubber bands to hold the mountains of cash together.
While hiding out at one point, Escobar allegedly burned $2 million simply to keep his family warm.
At his peak, ranked him among the richest people on Earth, once listing him as the 7th wealthiest, despite much of his fortune being impossible to count precisely.
He had amassed so much cash that it was decaying faster than it could ever be used.