President Barack Obama has $250 coming to him, Linux pioneer Linus Torvalds is owed a hundred bucks and change, and even O.J. Simpson has a sawbuck waiting for him if he ever manages to get out of jail.

This information comes courtesy of Hacker News forum users who this week decided to scour California's online unclaimed property listings for interesting tidbits like the fact that the late Steve Jobs apparently left three shares in Oracle floating around when he died in 2011.

Additionally, Steve Wozniak has $5.61 he can pick up from the California State Controller's Office should he wish to do somoney owed to him by Apple, the company he co-founded with Jobs in 1976.

The Hacker News thread was started by user octonion, who said he built the bulk of California's SCO-based unclaimed property database on a state contract a decade ago.

Meanwhile, participants in the thread didn't just check the site for cash and property being held for notable people. Many were happy to discover their own caches of found wealth, which is accessible upon providing a social security number to the Controller's Office, filling out a form, and mailing it in.

One user even discovered that his cat is mysteriously owed $5.98 by Ace Hardware. Others helpfully identified similar databases run by other states, such as one operated by the state of Illinois.

But unless you're owed a decent amount of cash yourself, poking around the unclaimed property site to snoop on celebrities is clearly the most rewarding use for it. And the database serves up a lot of details about who's owed what. For example, Obama's unclaimed $250 stems from uncashed First Republic Bank cashier's checks. You may also be delighted to learn that Arnold Schwarzenegger is owed 15 cents worth of "Miscellaneous Intangible Property" by Upromise, Inc.

The Hacker News gang also dug up some real oddities on the site. One user discovered that "Jesus Christ" has several bundles of unclaimed cash and assets being held for him. And then there's this person, or thing, or concept, or something whatever, you'll just have to click on the link.

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