In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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A full-time cashier at Costco makes about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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In 2007, a customer kindly gave a $10,000 tip to a Pizza Hut waitress after hearing she had financial troubles which had forced her to drop out of college.
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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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In 2013, AOL declared that they still made over $500 million a year through dial-up internet subscriptions.
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