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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