LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT MONEY AND CURRENCY
Added on: 8th Aug 2016
90% OF US DOLLARS CARRY TRACES OF COCAINE
IF YOU THOUGHT CARRYING TRACES OF COCAINE WAS
BAD, THE SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL FOUND
TRACES OF FAECAL MATTER ON 94% OF
DOLLAR BILLS TESTED
ALL THE US COINS AND DOLLAR BILLS IN CIRCULATION
TODAY ARE WORTH ABOUT $1.2 TRILLION
66% OF ALL US CASH IS HELD OVERSEAS BY
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND INDIVIDUALS
1,400 YEARS AGO CHINA CREATED THE
FIRST PAPER MONEY
SWITCHING US 1 DOLLAR BILLS FROM PAPER TO
COINS WOULD SAVE THE GOVERNMENT NEARLY
$4.5 BILLION OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS
EVERY YEAR, MORE MONOPOLY MONEY IS
PRINTED THAN REAL MONEY
MOVING PAST SIMPLE BANK NOTES, THROUGHOUT
THE WORLD US WEALTH ACCOUNTS FOR $75
TRILLION. IF THIS WERE TO BE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED
AMONG EVERY PERSON ON EARTH, WE WOULD
ALL HAVE $11,000
NORTH KOREA IS THE LARGEST COUNTERFEITER
OF US CURRENCY
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