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34 Money Facts To Stuff Into Your Brain Wallet

March 10, 2024

If only money facts could somehow translate to money itself. Hmm, maybe they can. Take this list door-to-door, and sell one fact at a time. Five bucks for “Bono once bought a $1,500 plane ticket for his hat.” Ten for “Thomas Jefferson had a million-dollar wine habit.” You can thank us when you’re buried in cold, hard cash.

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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. — Source

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Thomas Jefferson

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. — Source

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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. — Source

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Katy Perry

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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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. — Source

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Zombies

Zombies act the way they do in Night of the Living Dead because the movie couldn't afford special effects. There was no money for effects showing dead people rising from graves, so the filmmakers came up with the ideas that only recently dead people could become zombies and that humans would turn into zombies by getting bitten. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Breaking Bad's episode Fly was the product of the show going over its budget. Just moving production trucks to a new location cost $25,000-35,000, and they couldn't afford that, so they needed an episode contained in just one place. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The spider scene is Dr. No could have been pretty forgettable if they'd had more money. The production designer only had £775 to build that set, so he went with something cheap but memorable - a grid that cast a shadow that's kind of like a web. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Edgar Wright couldn't afford the music he wanted in the Winchester scene in Shaun of the Dead. Не wanted Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares to You (that's what he played while they were filming), but it cost way too much, so he settled for Chicago's If You Leave Me Now. It gets a big laugh he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Star Wars

Alderaan got blown up in Star Wars because Alderaan scenes were too expensive. George Lucas' initial idea was for Alderaan to be the site of the prison Leia would get rescued from, but he didn't have as much money as he wanted, so he just put all those scenes on the Death Star. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Halloween's premise was just a way to save money. John Carpenter wanted to make a horror movie where the monster was some guy wearing coveralls, because that'd be really cheap. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cribs of the rich and famous Michael Jackson's Neverland A ZOO. A train. An amusement park. Only for $200 million. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED IDE Tyres GOING FROM £10 MILLION TO DELIVERING COAL A 19-year-old garbage collector from the UK won about £10 million on the lottery in 2002. But he spent it all on a wild lifestyle and, 10 years later, was completely broke. Не then started working seven days a week delivering coal and firewood. — Source

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The Businessman Who Gambled Away More Than $100 Million

CRACKED OVER $100 MILLION GAMBLED AWAY One businessman lost more than $100 million in 2007 at a chain of casinos in Las Vegas. It's said that he was given alcohol and drugs to keep him gambling. — Source

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Rich people requests A GLOBAL YACHT MEASURING CONTEST An Australian billionaire ordered his yacht to be driven from Sydney to NYC, and have lunch for 50 people ready. None of the food was eaten, he was just having a rich dude party in a building overlooking the harbor, and just wanted to say, That's my boat. CRACKED — Source

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Uber-rich mothers hire professional organizers CRACKED.COM to pack their kid's trunks for summer camp. НА KURE LAU RE Energizer THIS SET A professional organizer charges about $250 per hour - for the 4 or so hours that one trunk takes, that's $1,000. Professional organizers, who do all kinds of tidying and organizing work for high-income clients, have their own 4,000-member-strong national association. — Source

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The 1% don't show off on Instagram-they use the app Rich Kids. Rich Kids is an Instagram clone with a twist: you can post photos only if you pay the monthly membership fee of €1,000 (about $1,160), but anyone can see them. No food porn, haul videos, or other Instagram staples get posted. It's just wall-to-wall ridiculously expensive products and experiences. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The production of anti-matter at this point in time costs $62.5 TRILLION dollars per gram. That's almost 4 times the entire United States national debt. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The US flew nearly $12 billion in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq. after KAZA Then they tossed it around without checking to see who was receiving it or how it was being spent. A congressional committee found that a staggering amount of the cash, which was was earmarked for Iraqi ministries and US contractors, was lost to corruption and waste. CRACKED.COM http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa iraq1 — Source

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