• 90% of the bills, and 80% of the coins in the U.S. have traces of cocaine on them.
• Penny's buried in a garden will repel slugs.
• U.S. paper money is actually cloth.
• The ink used for money has trackable, magnetic and coulor changing properties.
• Seashells were once commonly used as money all around the world.
• Green was chosen for the U.S. bills because green is the most resistant to fading, flanking, and discouloration.
• If all the money in the world was distributed evenly, then everyone would have less then 11,000 dollars.
• All U.S. bills and coins in circulation today are worth 1.2 trillion dollars.
• 66% of the U.S. Cash is held oversea.
• A study concluded that spending money on others yields more happiness then spending it on yourself.
• The richest I'm Florence, Italy are the same family's as 600 years ago.
• The worlds first paper money was made in China, 1,400 years ago.
• A study found that 2 out of 3 family inherited fortunes are lost by the new generation.
• More Monopoly money is made every year then real money.
• If you have 10 dollars in your pocket, and no depts, then you are wealthier then 25% of Americans.
• A penny costs 2.4 cents to manufacture.
• By law, only dead people can appear on U.S. currency.
• Paper money can carry a live flu virus for over 2 weeks.
• There's 75 trillion dollars in the world.
• Thinking about money makes people more determined and focused, but less sensitive to others feelings and needs.
• The international space station took 150 million dollars to build and stands as the most expensive thing in the world to build.
• McDonald's makes about 75 million dollars per day.
• Women who get married after 30 in the U.S. make 18,000 more dollars then if they got married in their early 20s.
• Apple makes about 300,000 dollars per minute.
• All of the 20 most richest women in the world inherited their money from their husband or father, all but #17, Savitri Jindal.
• Americans spent more then 15 billion dollars on Jeans in 2005.
• Americans spent more then 61.4 billion dollars in their pets in 2011.
• If Bill Gates spending rate was 1 million per day, it would take him 218 years to spend all his money.
• Until, WW2 Siberia used tea bricks as money.
• The 100 most richest people in the world earned enough money in 2012 to end poverty 4 times.
• In the 17th century, 1 out of 10 British coins were foraged.
