30 Priceless Trivia Tidbits About Money, Currency and Capitalism

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30 Priceless Trivia Tidbits About Money, Currency and Capitalism

As the Wu-Tang Clan so aptly put it, “Cash rules everything around me. C.R.E.A.M, get the money. Dollar dollar bill, y’all.” 

But since there are many forms of currency, the first letter of that acronym could use an update. Heck, a bank in Italy accepts cheese as collateral, so with cheese, crypto, credit cards… You know what? All of those start with a C too, don’t they? Maybe Wu-Tang was more ahead of their time than we thought.

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How many pennies are there? There are 130 billion pennies in circulation. In pounds, that's over 716 million. CRACKED COM

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What was the first item sold on eBay? Listed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, a broken laser pointer was the first item sold-for $14.83. CRACKED COM

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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

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CRACKED LITERALLY BURNING $2 MILLION At the peak of his success, Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellín drug cartel, is said to have burned through two million dollars to make sure his daughter stayed warm while his family was on the run in the early nineties.

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CRACKED TUTE MILK $33 BILLION IN 18 MONTHS Eike Batista, a Brazilian oil tycoon, went from an estimated wealth of $34 billion to less than $1 billion in just 18 months. Until Elon came along, that made him a contender for the person who has lost the most money in the history of the world.

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CRACKED $14.6 BILLION IN A DAY In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried, the head of FTX, lost a lot of money - about $14.6 billion - in a single day, after he made a deal with Binance to get some help.

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CRACKED.COM With arcades dying out, people don't just collect the games, people are looking PERTY MACH for tokens, too. 39 TOKEN Ts OF Smaller regional ones do NO CASH VALUE well, as do foreign ones; foreign languages and specific cities help. DURACELL ON TALER But even the big oneso 813 like Chuck E Cheese have collectors; with their tokens given years and updated designs, the ORVILL rarer ones are sought pieces of exonumia. WWERE A KID 1992 OAN BE A HAVE AND PUN OLNED 990

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