When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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