Here are some of Bill Gates’ eccentric antics over the past decade that he wants you to know about.

One of the richest people in the world is Bill Gatesa former co-founder of Microsoft who is currently trying to invest part of his fortune in helping us live in a better world, which has led him to do many strange and varied actions in recent years.

It was Bill Gates himself on his LinkedIn account who admitted to doing some strange things in his life, from drinking water with faecal sludge to sharing a stage with human feces, always for a good reason.

In this LinkedIn post he took the opportunity to mark World Toilet Day, he recalled a few moments where he even suggested Jimmy Fallon try clean drinking water that came just minutes before sewage.

“I’ve done some weird stuff over the years: drinking fecal sludge water with Jimmy Fallon, sharing a stage with a can of human feces, and smelling a restroom. These antics caused laughter, but my goal has always been to make people think about a problem that affects 3.6 billion people: poor sanitation.“, you can read in the publication.

He adds that “Thanks to scientists and engineers around the world, we are moving closer to new solutions that will prevent illness and disease.“.

Not everyone has access to better hygiene

This is due to what happened 10 years ago. yearsWhere is the Bill & Melinda Foundation located? Gatesreinvented the use of the toilet, and in order to draw attention to this campaign, the leader took part in a wide variety of public activities, such as sharing the stage with a can of human feces, inhaling a huge gulp of the smell of the toilet, and drinking the remaining water in the toilet. TV interview with Jimmy Fallon.

At the time, Bill Gates pointed out that “about 3.6 billion peopleNearly half of the world’s population does not have toilets or has unsafe sanitation.“.

“Life without a bathroom is more than an inconvenience. This is dangerous. Unsafe sanitation means contaminated water, soil and food. It causes sickness and death. Diarrhea and other sanitation-related diseases are estimated to kill about 500,000 children under the age of five every year.“.

“As the world becomes more populous, the human cost of unsafe sanitation will only increase. The United Nations estimates that between now and 2050, the world’s population will grow by two billion people. More than 90 percent of this growth will be concentrated in cities and developing countries, places with the least sanitation.“.

His LinkedIn post went viral with nearly 1,000 comments in just 48 hours of posting, showing that Bill Gates is still a very important figure around the world.