Jan 30, 2006 21:15
Money Facts
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.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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.
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill. Corrected Thanks To: Brad Spencer
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine. Every day in the United States, people steal $20,000 from coin-operated machines.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
The first coin minted in the United States was a silver dollar. It was issued on October 15, 1794. The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
I have been very concerned with money lately so i thought i would look at some facts.
I really hate that money consumes america the way that is does. everything or person is centered around the amount of money they have or what they are made out of or what can sell.
Im sick of it i hate putting a price on everthing the way i have Learned.
I hate being poor and i also hate that nobody at this fucking private art school really knows the value of a dollar because they are all rich. Its just hard sometimes to be surrounded by so much when you have so little, not that im not thankful for what i have, i just wish that the people around me could be more appreciative for what they have instead of just expecting such luxories cause they have never been without them, I hate that i have grown up poor so i automatically think about everything i buy and if i really can afford it and if its worth it.
Money sucks and if our society was based on trade instead of paper bills and credit then everyone would be a lot more honest and true to themselves and eachother.