More Fun Money Facts

I posted a blog a few weeks ago discussing interesting money facts. I received great feedback from this posting, therefore I decided to share more fun money facts. Who would have thought that learning about money could be almost as fun as spending it?

• During the fiscal year of 2008, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produced approximately 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $629 million.
• If you had 10 billion $1 bills and spent one every second of every day, it would take 317 years before you went broke.
• A stack of currency one mile high would contain over 14½ million notes.
• You can double fold a note 4,000 times before it will tear.
• Contrary to popular belief, the automobile pictured on the back of the $10 bill is not a Model "T" Ford. It is a creation of the designer of the bill.
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
• There is more Monopoly money printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world. The amount of money in a Monopoly game is $15,140.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• Nine thousand years ago, people used cows for money!
• The words "The United States of America" appears on the $100 note 12 times
• 3 in every 10,000 US bills is counterfeit.

References:

http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/106

http://www.delraycc.com/InterestingMoney/12MoreAmazingMoneyFacts/tabid/183/Default.aspx

http://www.happyworker.com/magazine/facts/weird-and-wonderful-money-facts