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28 Trivia Tidbits About Money to Stack in the Fort Knox of Your Brain

February 02, 2024

We’re enamored with money facts lately because it’s our way of being in the vicinity of cash. We’ve never really had any, so maybe learning more about it will help us make some of our own.

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Prosecuted rich people in China sometimes hire body doubles to serve their sentences in prison. DUES LIEBRA *Hu Bin, a rich 20-year-old who ٨ hit and killed a 1932 *Alleged body pedestrian while double of Hu Bin. drag racing. The practice is called ding zui, which translates to substitute criminal. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The coveted American Express Centurian black card costs a minumum of $10,000 a year. AMERICAN EXPRESS® AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS EXPRESS EXPRESS AMERICAN AMERICAN EXPRESS MERICAN 3749 800TL AMERICAN BY MEMBER SINCE 85 AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS AMERICAN EXPRESS RICHY MCJERKFACE THE RICA AMEX You also have to spend a minimum of $100, 000 and make $1 million a year to even be qualified to carry one. The card has some members only secret perks, but is otherwise not that different from the Amex platinum card. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM So your cat died, but you can't bear to go on without him? For $725, you can have your cat taxidermed. But if that price sounds too upper-middle-class, $25,000 will get you a clone. Both procedures cost even more for dogs. — Source

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Why spend pocket change on NORMAL toothpicks like a PEASANT when you can spend $18,000 on luxury, solid gold toothpicks? GRACKED.COM — Source

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Do you find it strange having CRACKED.COM multiple stylists? HOW ABOUT A STYLIST JUST FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE? SOME CELEBRITIES PAY UP TO $80,000 ANNUALLY TO HAVE THEIR CHRISTMAS TREES DECORATED BY PROFESSIONALS — Source

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Rich people have special therapists to help them from becoming mentally unstable due to their wealth. Called wealth therapists, their job is to help the 1% cope with the guilt and loneliness brought by being rich. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM During its heyday in the late 1970s, Pablo Escobar's drug cartel spent $2,500 each month on rubber bands to hold its bricks of cash together. — Source

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CRACKED.COM PAY TO THE ORDER OF. BEAU VINE A check is only an instruction to a bank, therefore it can be written on anything. In the past people have written checks on such things as stone slabs, bananas and COWS. — Source

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The Coinage Act of 1792 that established the US Mint made coin defacement, counterfeiting, and embezzlement by Mint employees punishable by death. Sourced Medalla ... - MEDAILLEN CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 1923, hyperinflation caused German currency to lose, almost all of its value. It became so worthless that people gave it to children to play with or used it as wallpaper. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gambling generates more revenue than MOVIES, SPECTATOR SPORTS, VASA ARMS CRUISE SHIPS, & Recorded music COMBINED CRACKED.COM — Source

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Will Smith starred in The FROSH PriNCP of Bel-Air because he owed the IRS $2.8 million. Smith became a Hip Hop star at a young age, which led to some reckless spending habits. Luckily, Quincy Jones threw him a life-preserver in the form of a TV show. For the first three seasons, Smith gave the IRS 70% of his paycheck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Beatles wrote some of their songs purely because they wanted to buy cool new stuff. CRACKED.COM Paul McCartney and John Lennon would start a songwriting session with something like, Now let's write a swimming pool. — Source

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Betsy Palmer

FRIDAY THE 13TH Right after Betsy Palmer read the script for Friday the 13th, her car broke down. She says she accepted the role as Mrs. Voorhees so she could get a new Volkswagen Scirocco. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Charles Dickens

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol just to quickly make some cash. £ £ £ In the fall of 1843, Dickens was in debt, his wife had just given birth to their fifth child, and the family had moved into an expensive new house. To get a quick injection of cash, Dickens decided to whip up a Christmas book in six weeks. The result was probably the most famous Christmas story ever written. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Game of Thrones

Maisie Williams is beloved for her role as Arya Stark on Game of Thrones. CRACKED.COM She recently admitted that she only accepted the role so she'd have the money to buy a laptop! — Source

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Crypto Scams B THE MISS ANNA FX SCAM Miss Anna FX was found to be a crypto scammer who was taking control of people's accounts and stealing money from Meta users. She was asking people to send her $500 to invest in Bitcoin, and had made over $52,000 in a few months. CRACKED — Source

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Scams

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Crypto Scams PURE THE IEARN SCAM At the end of 2020, iEarn Bot stopped people in Romania from taking out their money and asked them to switch it into a new type of currency called iBot, worth the same amount. But users are still waiting to get their hands on actual currency. CRACKED — Source

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Crypto Scams THE JEFF BEZOS SCAM British people have lost a lot of money to cryptocurrency scams featuring famous people, with the most expensive one involving a photo of Jeff Bezos costing almost two $200,000 dollars. CRACKED — Source

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Crypto Scams THE CRYPTO.COM UKRAINE SCAM In 2022, a scam on the Crypto.com/Nft Facebook page asked people to donate money to Ukraine. Since April 2021, the wallet address associated with the scam had received around $32,279.94. Kinda depressing! CRACKED — Source

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The Paypal Scam

Crypto Scams B THE PAYPAL Pay SCAM In 2023, a 79-year-old was tricked out of $79,500 by a crypto scammer using PayPal. The scam relied on fear, guilt, and all sorts of other tactics to take advantage of the victim's lack of computer knowledge. CRACKED

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HAN SOLO'S HEAVY BLASTER PISTOL. CRACKED.COM At an auction in 2018, a blaster Harrison Ford used in Return of the Jedi sold for a whopping $550,000. — Source

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JAMES BOND'S GUN FROM DR. NO. CRACKED.COM The legendary semi-automatic pistol Sean Connery used in the very first James Bond film sold for $256,000 at an auction in 2020. — Source

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ROCKY BALBOA'S JACKET AND BOXING SHORTS. CRACKED.COM At an auction in 2015, the jacket Sylvester Stallone wore in Rocky sold for $149,000, while a pair of boxing shorts he wore in Rocky IV sold for $57,500. We just hope somebody cleaned those shorts since 1985. — Source

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JACK NICHOLSON'S АХ FROM THE SHINING. CRACKED COM The legendary ах Nicholson used to try to kill his family sold at an auction in London for around $209,000. The new owner hopefully has much less nefarious plans in mind for the ах. — Source

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A WONKA BAR AND A GOLDEN TICKET FROM WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. WONKA BAR CRACKED.COM The two items formerly belonging to Julie Dawn Cole, the actress who played Veruca Salt in the 1971 original, sold for $20,000 at an auction in 2019. — Source

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TONY SOPRANO'S 2003 CADILLAC ESCALADE. CRACKED.COM The car Soprano drove in the final three seasons of The Sopranos was sold for nearly $120,000 in 2015. The car also came with Soprano's driver's license. — Source

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