Money Talk

• Bills are made of a cotton(75%) & linen(25%).


• There is 293 ways to make change for a dollar


• If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will be heads 49% of the times. The heads picture weights more, so it ends up on the bottom.


• Most people won’t bend over to pick up money lying on the sidewalk unless it’s at least a dollar.


• On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the 1 encased in the shield. There is a spider hidden in the front upper right hand corner of the bill.


• A Quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, one more than a dime. The reason the mint started using ridges was to prevent counterfeit and devaluing of the coin. At the time, coins were made of precious metals and people would shave the coin’s edges. Merchants had to start weighing the coins to determine the true value since so many coins in circulation were shaved. Now that the mint no longer uses precious metals, they still keep the ridges for the seeing impaired to be able to tell the differences between coins like the dime and penny.


• A person who drives 10 miles to buy a lottery ticket is 3 times more likely to be killed in a car accident while driving to buy the ticket… than… he is to win the jackpot. Adopted from the insider review