Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Money Facts




  • The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
  • If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
  • A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
  • One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.
  • TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
  • The term "Blue Chip" comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.
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