If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Siberian Family Who Didnt See Other Humans For Over 40 Years https://youtu.be/zwN7UNZIevs?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy https://youtu.be/WbvR1VtfShw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: Who was the wealthiest person in every century? That was a question we tried to answer in a previous TIFO article. While it was an incredibly difficult question to get definitive answers to, it did reveal that the wealthiest private entity in the 19th century was actually not a person – but a family. The Rothschild family, descendants of Mayer A. Rothschild, is still around today and is believed to be worth over a trillion dollars combined, thought to be the largest private fortunate in the history of the world. Who are the Rothschilds exactly and how did they amass this tremendous fortune? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/richest-family-world-rothschild-family/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Rothschild http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-remaining-heirs-of-the-legendary-rothschild-dynasty-2012-2#the-rothschilds-have-come-to-epitomize-the-well-bred-banker--12 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/10/arts/austrian-rothschilds-decide-sell-sotheby-s-london-will-auction-40-million-art.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/rothschilds-to-sell-art-looted-by-nazis-1086931.html http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2223683?sid=21105597112143&uid=3739256&uid=2134&uid=3739808&uid=4&uid=70&uid=2 http://web.archive.org/web/20060115031554/http://news.independ