MONEY MATTERS 411
Teens & Money
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The word "millionaire" was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
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Did you know, George Washington's wife, Martha, appeared on the $1 Silver Certificate in 1886 as the only woman to have ever appeared on a US currency note.
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Did you know, in Old English the word 'pygg' referred to a type of orange clay that people used to make dishes and jars that held money. As language changed pygg and the word pig started to sound similiar which is why we have piggy banks that look like pigs!
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Did you know there are 54 ways to save money?????
That's a lot of extra cash!
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Do you know the largest paper currency is the $100,000 bill?
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Any kind of bill can be folded forwards and back around 4,000 times before it will tear.
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The first paper money to appear in North America was printed on playing cards.
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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If you stack one million U.S. $1 bills, it would be 361 fett high and weigh exactly 1 ton!
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Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Act of Scotland. Nessie is worth $40 million annually to Scottish tourism.
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Annual global spending on education is $1.1 trillion. Annnual global spending on military is $1.3 trillion with U.S. participating as 45% of that.
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About 30% of consumers use their credit cards to buy Christmas presents, 70% do not save to buy Christmas presents, and 86% of consumers do their Christmas shopping in December.
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Between 1998 and 2005, 2/3 of the U.S. coporations and 68% of foreign corporations operating in the U.S. paid no taxes at all.
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Why Ben Franklin is on the $100 bill
"George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson – most of our paper currency features U.S. presidents. There are only two exceptions: Alexander Hamilton is on the $10 bill and Benjamin Franklin is on the $100.
You can understand the choice of Hamilton, he was the first Secretary of the Treasury. But why was Franklin, a newspaper editor and inventor of the lightning rod, chosen for the $100 bill?
Several reasons, actually. First, he is one of America’s Founding Fathers and his signature is on the Declaration of Independence. One of his core values was that hard work was the way to true wealth, a notion that would become the foundation of the American Dream. To top it all off, he used his printing skills to help print the first US currency."
-CNBC
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When people say a 'ton' of money, what does that really mean? Well, a one dollar bill weighs about a gram and there are 907,185 grams in a ton. Therefore, a ton of money is technically $907,185!!! That's a lot of money, just shy of a million dollars.