He took money perhaps as much as one million four hundred thousand dollars in cash and diamonds but piling up treasure seems not to have been his primary motivation, either.

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He added that about two million people at any one time are trying to buy tickets, but only a few thousand each day were able to be released.

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One problem: Ferrand was minuscule, turning out several thousand bottles a year compared with Hennessy's 51 million.

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That means if a thousand people stamp one dollar a day for a year, the message would be seen more than 300 million times.

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In just one short year, the White House has received more than three million signatures from the public on over fifty thousand petitions.

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