26 Facts About Money Mom and Dad Didn’t Tell Us About

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26 Facts About Money Mom and Dad Didn’t Tell Us About

After you graduate, you quickly realize how little you know about anything. We’ve all heard countless pissy digs at curriculums nationwide for not including real-world skills like budgeting and investing, and we’re here to pile on even more! For instance, nobody taught us that Australian money is so thin that you can use it as the needle on a record player! But we had to learn useless crap like the pythagorean theorem?! Pfft. Come on!

In 2017 TSA collected $869,839.56 in GRACKED.COM loose change. The change was left at airports and they have been collecting about half a million per year for several years.

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The largest piece of legal tender in the world is 220 pounds. MILLION DOLLA, ILLION DE DOLLA Canada's Big Maple Leaf is a $1 million coin made of about $2 million worth of nearly-pure gold, that somehow reached a market value of $4 million. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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Some Australian and British notes are so thin and rigid, people figured out they could actually produce sound from vinyl records. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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BANQUE DU ZAIRE VINGY MIELE ZAIRES 0 0 0 0 17-1991 Nyuhril When dictator Joseph Mobutu was overthrown, Zaire's government cut his face off the currency until they could design and print new notes. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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China once accidentally faked out all its ATMs. 100 100 00 10 AA00000001 AA0000000 Their high-roller gold 100-yuan bill contained actual gold. It was such an effective anti-counterfeiting measure that the country's ATMS couldn't recognize them for several days. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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By divorcing Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos became the third richest woman on Earth. The divorce settlement left MacKenzie with around $38 billion in Amazon shares. Despite losing that much money, Jeff Bezos remained the world's richest man, with a net worth of $121 billion. CRACKED.COM

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