MONEY FACTS

                                         

      How much do you know about the money,here is loaded fact about money for you

•        The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
•          If you stack one million US$1 bills,it would be 110m (361ft) high and weight exactly one ton.
•          The term "blue chip" comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value,blue.
•          Annual global spending on education is $80 billion.
•          US and European expenditure on pet food is $17 billion per year.
•          The global expenditure on health care and nutrition is $13 billion.
•          Money notes are not made from paper,it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
•          TIP is the acronym for "To Insure promptness.
•          The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
•          There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.
•          80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.
•          In 1900,the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce.It reached $600 in 1930,now struggling to reach $400 per ounce
•          Tourism is the world's biggest industry,affecting 240 million jobs.
•          A third of the World's people live on less than $2 a day,with 1.2 billion people living on less than $2.
•          If California was a country,it would be the 5th largest economy in the World.
•          If Los Angele's County was a country,it would be the 19th largest economy in the World.
•          In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino,Washington,USA, notes were made out of wood for brief period.The money notes came in $1,$5 and $10 values.
•          The World's largest coins, in size and standard value,were copper plates used in Alaska around 1850.
•          They were about a metre (3ft)long,half a metre (about 2ft) wide,weighed 40kg (90lb), and worth $2,500.
•          The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
•          The average age of Forbes's 400 wealthiest individuals is 63.
•          In 1955 the richest woman in the World was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks,who left an estate of $95 million in a wall that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.
•          The Hubble space telescope weighs 12 tons, is 43ft long and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.