A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they gave him).
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The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2 million.
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Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.
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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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