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33 Facts About Money to Stuff in Your Piggy Bank

Printed and folded facts will fit nicely in that piggy’s back slot

33 Facts About Money to Stuff in Your Piggy Bank

May 12, 2024

Do you think that when M.C Hammer said “Hammer Time,” he meant grabbing a hammer and smashing open his piggy bank? We like to imagine that after all of his dimes couldn’t fit in that little piggy, he was inspired to write a hit song.

Here, while you’re reading these confirmed money facts, we’ll track Hammer down and get the truth!

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Citizenship

It would cost you $2,350 to renounce your U.S. citizenship PASSPORT PASSPORT d States The U.S. has the highest fee in the world. It hiked the fee from $450 in 2014. CRACKED.COM — Source

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John Lennon's acoustic Gibson sold for $2.4 million TR FOR MORE T Lennon bought the guitar in 1962 for £161 and used it on The Beatles' first single Love Me Do. It was bought from a San Diego shop in 1967, with the purchaser having no idea of its history. CRACKED.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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Gambling generates more revenue than MOVIES, SPECTATOR SPORTS, ARMS, CRUISE SHIPS, & Recorded music COMBINED CRACKED.COM — Source

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Substitute Criminals

Prosecuted rich people in China sometimes hire body doubles to serve their sentences in prison. CUBS LIEBRA *Hu Bin, a rich 20-year-old who ٨ hit and killed a 19 *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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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. CRACKED.COM — Source

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More Monopoly money is printed annually than $1 STATES OF bills UNITED have been in a decade IS LEGAL TENDER STATES NOTE THIS OF AMI PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEBTS FOR ALL 7774 L WASHING DEPARTMENT 902L SERIES 2009 ED Since 2008, the US Treasury has printed around 25 billion dollar bills, whereas Hasbro prints 30 billion bills for their Monopoly games CRACKED.COM every year. But to be fair, only 43 million of those are ones. — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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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 — Source

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A person who drives 10 miles to buy a lottery ticket is 3 times more likely to be killed in a car accident while driving to buy the ticket than he is to win the jackpot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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On average, the flu virus can survive outside of the body for about 48 hours... OF tra live on a dollar bill ...it can DEPARTMENT for THE ITAL over 10 days. 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. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The smartphone industry spends about $10 billion a year on suing over, and buying, patents. 400 430g 440 440g 400 4500 752al 752g 12 75222 al-ri Excition no Au Bulford Basic POLICE NEL Quick Connect DO THE 990 Christina Holano 1130 NG 951-7 on DE 23 MFU tos : 75 251 Screenshot cactur ed 1018 G Touch to WT you a made Emily Clarke 0452 PM Acio Today month or TX it Special 197 00 $ Connected = media devico South to other 153 STORE $54005 ast DE company 75202 7520 75208 75201 POR 450g 450 That money could launch four Mars — Source

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CRACKED.COM When possible, WALK to the store. Research shows impulse purchasing increases by 44%, just by taking your car with you. — Source

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Money Sayings

TWENTY SHILL Counterfeit, 15 DESED Before it said In God We Trust, all US currency came with a handy reminder: TO COUNTERFEIT IS DEATH. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Extended warranties aren't worth it. The failure rate of modern gadgets and appliances is so low, you're almost sure to never need one with an extended warranty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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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 — Source

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

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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 — Source

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Marty McFly's Hooverboard went for $500,000 The prop from Back to the Future // was signed by Michael J. Fox and significantly outsold the estimated $80,000 to $100,000. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It cost $4 million to give Shrek a Scottish accent Mike Meyers originally gave the character a Canadian accent but switched a Scottish accent after a rough cut was already made. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The cost to end world hunger is $30 billion per year -the same amount as drunk Americans spend online annually — Source

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GRAGKED.COM AROUND 2/3 OF AMERICAN ADULTS DUNCE CANNOT PASS A BASIC FINANCIAL LITERACY TEST. This shouldn't be shocking when you learn only 17 STATES require a personal finance class to GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL. — Source

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CRACKED.COM PoKéMoN GO players spent about $2.2 million a day on in-app purchases R in 2018. R $ $ $ — Source

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The Tooth Fairy

GRACKED.COM SEITE TEAM UNITED NOVESSAR OF AMERICA DD160755588 Kids earn an average of $4.13 per lost tooth in the US. That's four times the minimum wage per hour in Mexico. — Source

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In 43 states, jails and prisons can bill inmates for their stay. The fees can be tens of thousands of dollars, are imposed at the sole discretion of a judge, and are often aggressively collected regardless of ability to pay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In one of the U.S.'s poorest areas, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, people make on average less than $8,000 a year. ENTERING PINE RIDGE INDIANPESERYATION About 60% of them can't afford to plug into the power grid. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A recent study by Italian economists shows that the wealthiest Florence families from 1427 remain the wealthiest even today, six centuries later. This trend is not exclusive to Italy, similar data was gathered in England and China. CRACKED COM — Source

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Multi-Level Marketing Schemes

GRAGKED.COM If you're planning to invest in multi-level marketing schemes, don't bother. More than 99 percent of those who participate lose money and only a few actually gain profit. — Source

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70 PERCENT OF ALL LOTTERY WINNERS LOSE EVERYTHING IN THE FOLLOWING SEVEN YEARS UAG WAO BREAKING OVERNIGHT ATLANTA JACKPOT WINNER DIES AFTER GOLD PLATING HIS TESTICLES Logically, if you make bad economic decisions, like playing the lottery, you will keep making bad economic decisions if you win the jackpot. This is called a self-selected group. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billionaires

CRACKED.COM The average CEO has made more money by lunchtime on January 2 than the average worker will make all year. — Source

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