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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
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In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
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On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
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$644 million was mislaid by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen during their 1999 audit of NASA.
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Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.
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Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
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The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hub mobile.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
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On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
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Interesting Facts is that More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
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Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
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Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
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In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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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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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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Interesting Facts is that America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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