Place Facts About Money

More Monopoly money is printed each year than real US dollars. Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) prints about $30 billion in Monopoly money annually, while the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces around $500 million to $1 billion in new currency.

Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.

Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.

According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.

Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.

Organized crime generates an estimated $2 trillion globally each year, with American criminal enterprises accounting for hundreds of billions in illegal revenue.

About 37% of millionaires buy used cars, and fewer than 25% drive current-year models—most prefer practical brands like Toyota, Honda, and Ford over luxury vehicles.

Each day, more than $20 trillion changes hands in global financial markets, with the foreign exchange market alone processing $9.6 trillion daily.

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.

On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!

It costs about 2.8 cents to print a $1 bill in the United States, though the true cost including overhead is around 7.5 cents.

If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.

About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.

Harvard's endowment is so massive that its annual investment returns alone exceed the total tuition revenue from all undergraduate students.

The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.

At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone's criminal empire generated approximately $105 million per year from bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution. In today's dollars, that's roughly $1.8 billion annually.