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• [Currency fact 1]  People in the US got free flights by buying money from the government. People would buy $1 coins in bulk from the US mint (free shipping) and pay off their credit card bill with the coins. They would buy the coins with credit cards that awarded frequent flyer miles, thus getting them free miles.

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• [Currency fact 2]  The North Korean won is effective "like toilet paper" and everyone (even at the lowest levels of North Korean society) use US dollars to trade. The govt tried to revalue the currency but because everyone used dollars, the won continued to fall in value.

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• [Currency fact 3]  During the civil war, the Union counterfeited Confederate currency and deliberately gave it away in the South to cause massive inflation

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• [Currency fact 4]  Ne Win, the dictator of Burma (Myanmar) was obsessed with numerology. He removed 50 Kyat and 100 Kyat banknotes from circulation. Replaced them with 45 Kyat and 90 Kyat banknotes. The economic instability which followed led to a coup d'êtát in 1988.

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• [Currency fact 5]  There are 2.5 million of Zero Rupee banknotes in India. They are "paid" in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes

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• [Currency fact 6]  A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

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• [Currency fact 7]  In 2014, Ireland was outraged after an Australian article suggested that the Irish used potatoes as a source of currency.

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• [Currency fact 8]  For free, the US Treasury Department provides blind US citizens with a machine to read their currency for them. “The iBill is compact enough to slip into a side pocket. It can identify all US currency.” They have also developed free apps to read currency with a smartphone.

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• [Currency fact 9]  For free, the US Treasury Department provides blind US citizens with a machine that can read their currency for them. iBill is compact enough to slip into a side pocket. It can identify all US currency. They have also developed free apps to read currency with a smartphone.

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• [Currency fact 10]  If you win the million dollar prize on the McDonald's monopoly game, they actually pay you $50,000 per year for 20 years.

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