FUN MONEY FACTS

• Every day more money is printed for the board game Monopoly than for the U.S. Treasury
• A dime has 118 ridges around its edge
• The first paper money issued by the Treasury was in 1861
• If you had 10 billion $1 bills, and spent one every second of every day, it would take you 317 years before you ran out of money
• Paper money is not actually made of paper but is instead 25% linen and 75% cotton
• The average life of paper money depends on the denomination
  $ 1 .............. 22 months
  $ 5 ................ 24 months
  $ 10................ 18 months
  $ 20 ............... 25 months
  $ 50 ............... 55 months
  $100 .............. 60 months
• The $100 bill is the largest bill in currency since 1969

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