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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119. |
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Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million. |
| It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. |
| Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. |
| On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. |
| 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. |
| To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow. |
| U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages. |
| Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. |
| 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. |
| 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day. |
| 75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North America! |
| 80% of millionaires drive used cars. |
| 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions! |
| 85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women! |
| 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting! |
| 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation. |
| A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds! |
| A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes. |
| A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%. |
| About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash. |
| Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold! |
| America once issued a 5-cent bill! |
| Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year! |
| Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food. | |