LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT MONEY AND CURRENCY

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