| 80% of millionaires drive used cars. |
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| A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119. |
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| A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds! |
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| About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash. |
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| According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'. |
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| America once issued a 5-cent bill! |
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| Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year! |
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| Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War. |
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| Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas! |
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| Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide. |
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| If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. |
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| In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads. |
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| In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax! |
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| In the U.S., for every dollar you spend on gasoline 27 cents of it is in taxes. |
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| In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed! |
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| It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. |
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| Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month. |
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| Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison. |
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| More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world! |
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| Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour. |
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| Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras. |
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| Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. |
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| On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. |
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| Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot. |
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| Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry. |
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| Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875. |
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| The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic. |
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| The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy! |
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| The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. |
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| The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water. |
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| The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money! |
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| The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins! |
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| The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m. |
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| The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon. |
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| The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined. |
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| The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. |
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| There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. |
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| There are more female than male millionaires in the United States. |
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| There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan. |
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| To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow. |
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| Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000. |
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| Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States. |
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| Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia. |
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| WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes! |
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| Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. |
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| Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money. |
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