Category Archives: Money

Feb 23 2017
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Geography, Money

Fact #1301: The US government will replace damaged currency for free as long as you have at least 50% of the damaged bill.

Source: http://www.bep.gov/services/currencyredemption.html

Oct 16 2016
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Money

Fact #1211: A man spent 5 months in prison – unaware that his bail was $2.00.

Source: http://wgntv.com/2016/06/01/unaware-of-2-bail-man-spends-almost-five-months-in-prison/

May 24 2016
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Money, Natural World

Fact #1107: It costs between $30,000-85,000 to climb Mount Everest. The permit alone costs $11,000.

Source: http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2015/12/21/everest-2016-how-much-does-cost-to-climb-mount-everest/

Apr 08 2016
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Government, Money

Fact #1075: The US Treasury still prints $2 bills. Thirty-two million $2 bills were printed in 2014.

Source: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/productionannual.html

Jan 15 2016
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Money, People

Fact #1017: In 1997, Apple stock hit a 12-year low that was partially caused by a single sale of 1.5 million shares ($22.5 million) by an anonymous party. This helped Jobs convince the board to oust CEO Gil Amelio and appoint himself as the replacement. Jobs was revealed to be the anonymous party.

Literally Emperor Palpatine lol.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Amelio

Jan 07 2016
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History, Money

Fact #1011: No one is 100% sure of the origin of the dollar sign ($). Our best guess is that it evolved from PË¢, an abbreviation for the Spanish American peso used in the late 1700s.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin

Sep 22 2015
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Money

Fact #938: When the words and the numbers on a check don’t match, the words prevail.

Numbers written out with words are clearer; you still know how much the check is for, even if you can’t make out half of the letters. On the other hand, numerical digits are almost worthless if they’re hard to read.
Aug 14 2015
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Money

Fact #912: The trend in Tooth Fairy money per tooth has tracked with the movement of the S&P 500 in 10 of the past 11 years.

Source: http://www.debt.com/news/2014/tooth-fairy-pay

Jul 15 2015
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Entertainment, Money, Places

Fact #900: In 2001, the island country of Niue issued several Pokemon coins and is the only country in the world that uses images of Pokemon on their currency.

Source: http://avaxnews.net/wow/niue_pokemon_legal_coins.html

Jun 25 2015
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Money

Fact #887: 1lb of quarters and 1lb of dimes are both equal to $20.

 

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