31 Trivia Tidbits About Money That Will Make You Rich... In Knowledge
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The great thing about money facts is that they’re nowhere near as dirty as the money itself. That was our biggest takeaway from our chat with the billing department this morning. They informed us that we’ll be paid in money facts from now on, so we’re just staying positive. Like, think of all the money we’ll save on hand soap!
![The people of Yap used stones that were too big to carry - up to 2 tons. They never moved locations, but were traded via public ceremonies so everyone knew who owned which big-ass rock. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/1029514.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/1029513.jpg)
![The smallest coins ever used, Vijayanger's tara, had a diameter of 4 millimeters. If you didn't have exact change, you'd be carrying around a pocket full of tiny buttons. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/1029512.jpg)
![Lots of modern money is not vegan. 24 countries' currency uses a polymer derived from tallow (beef fat). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/1029511.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/1029509.jpg)
![The first US coins said Mind Your Business. MIND YOUR BUSINESS You'll never believe this: it was Benjamin Franklin's idea. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/1029510.jpg)
![Justin Timberlake bought MySpace. CRACKED.COM After portraying social media pioneer Sean Parker, Timberlake was part of a group that spent $35 million to buy MySpace. 4 years later, in 2015, he sold his shares to a fan for one exact dollar.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/1029508.jpg)
![Celine Dion needed a $2 million humidifier. CRACKED.COM She had Caesar's Palace install a humidifier above the stage during a three-year residency, to keep the desert driness from withering her precious vocal cords.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/1029507.jpg)
![Katy Perry bought a ticket to space. CRACKED.COM Back when they were engaged, Perry bought Russell Brand a $200k ticket for a Virgin Galactic flight for his birthday.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/1029506.jpg)
![Beyoncé bought an $80k Barbie. CRACKED.COM For Blue Ivy's first birthday, Beymomcé picked her up a diamond-encrusted Barbie from... Target? KB Toys? Who stocks this stuff? Anyway, it had 160 diamonds and some white gold jewelry and maybe celebrity culture is deeply deeply toxic.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/1029505.jpg)
![Paris Hilton bought a $325k doghouse. CRACKED COM Even if you didn't know that Paris Hilton had a custom duplex with designer furniture built for her dogs that cost more than the average house... surely, deep down, you suspected it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/4/1029504.jpg)
![Thomas Jefferson had a million-dollar wine habit. CRACKED.COM Не spent over $1 million per year having that good European wine imported to the states. Impressively, he only died about $100k in debt.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/1029503.jpg)
![Heidi Montag spent $10 million prepping for the apocalypse. CRACKED.COM Montag and husband Spencer Pratt were so sure that the world was ending via asteroid in 2012, that they started spending (and tipping!) lavishly. When the world didn't end, they had to move in with Pratt's parents.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/2/1029502.jpg)
![Elon Musk bought a submarine car from a Bond movie. CRACKED.COM Wet Nellie sounds like a playground punishment Musk got every day of his childhood, but it's the nickname of the car featured in The Spy Who Loved Me, and only set him back about $1 million.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/1/1029501.jpg)
![Bono bought a plane ticket for his hat. CRACKED.COM When he realized he left his hat at home, he did the logical thing and bought a new one .. NOPE just kidding, he spent $1,500 to have it flown first-class to Italy, ASAP. To his credit, he budgeted in a tip for the cabbie who delivered it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/0/1029500.jpg)
![In 2018, Russian nuclear scientists were arrested for Bitcoin mining on the job. (illustration) Apparently, they tried to use one of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia, at a top-secret nuclear warhead facility, to mine ВТС. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/9/1029499.jpg)
![Scientists think Bitcoin alone could push global temperatures above 2°C. That could happen by 2033, according to a study that looked at the power efficiency of BTC mining machines, their locations, and the CO2 emissions of those locations. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/8/1029498.jpg)
![As of May 2021, Bitcoin eats up about 0.55% of the world's electricity production. The rough amount is 110 Terawatt Hours per year, which is basically the same as the power consumption of a small country, like Malaysia or Sweden. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/1029497.jpg)
![North Korea's military used Bitcoin to steal over half a billion dollars. They stole it from online trading platforms in 2017 and 2018, and used blockchain technology (the basis of Bitcoin) to be able to do it undetected. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/1029496.jpg)
![The first real-world Bitcoin transaction involved buying two pizzas for 10,000 ВТС. That happened on May 22, 2010, and it was the equivalent of about $25 at the time -- it'd be roughly $360 million in late May 2021. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/4/1029494.jpg)
![Nobody knows who actually invented Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general). TROYOZ INTERNATIONAL MJB EUSTER bb ITALYOZ BITCON. NTRAL METALS B MAJIENDO The inventor went by the name Satoshi Nakamoto online, but the person (or group) behind the handle never came forward and has never been identified. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/0/1029490.jpg)
![In Turkey, you can no longer use cryptocurrencies to buy anything at all. Due to rising inflation, people started using crypto for everyday transactions more and more, but the government put a stop to that on April 30, 2021. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/5/1029495.jpg)
![In 2018, 50 Cent realized he had a bunch of Bitcoins (worth millions at that point). When his album Animal Ambition came out in 2014, he became the first artist to accept BTC and received 700 ВТС. 4 years later, that pile was worth $8 million. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/1/1029491.jpg)
![Squirrel pelts were a common currency in medieval Russia. It's speculated that murdering all those squirrels actually helped stave off the spread of The Black Plague. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/3/1029493.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/6/1029486.jpg)
![SZAZMILLIO SEAZMILLIO SZAZMILLIO SZÀZMILLIÓ B:-PENGO BUDAPEST. 3946 EVI JUNIUS HO 3 AN MAGYAR NEMZETI BANK DITEIRZYZS Gayer ELNOK SEAZMILLED FOTANACSOS IA BANKJEGYHAMISITAST д TORVENY DONTETI The largest-ever legal denomination was Hungary's 100 Million Trillion Pengo. It was worth 20 US cents. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/5/1029485.jpg)
![TWENTY SHILL Counterfeit, s DESER Before it said In God We Trust, all US currency came with a handy reminder: TO COUNTERFEIT IS DEATH. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/4/1029484.jpg)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/8/1029488.jpg)
![China used to trade knife-money. Knife-replica coinage was developed in the regions where knives were commonly used tools, while spade-money hailed from regions more dependent on agriculture than good, honest stabbin'. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/2/1029492.jpg)
![Italy has a Fort Knox for cheese. Credito Emiliano accepts wheels of Parmesan as collateral for loans while cheese makers wait for their sources of income to mature. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/7/1029487.jpg)
![Canadians trade coupons from a tire company. Lienter CANADIAN TIA CANADARIAS 10c LS CANADIAN TIRE LA SOCIETE CANADIAN TRE LIMITEE I CASH BONUS out B BONI CANADIAN TIRE CARADUAN TIRE CONPORATI ion, LIMITED Canada Tire is so ubiquitous that lots of bars and small businesses an accept their official Canadian Tire Money. Someone was even caught counterfeiting $11 million worth. CRACKED.COM NOW YOU KNOW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/9/1029489.jpg)