Astonishing Facts about Money!
by horne_jeffrey | created - 17 Mar 2015 | updated - 18 Mar 2015 | PublicHere are 25 amazing facts about money, which does what? Makes the world go around. Please let me know if anyone have any other interesting facts that they will like to distribute to the class. As always, please have a enjoyable time reading my list, which I do out of passion. In case, I create this list for the love of money since I like money. Don't we all. Let's get down to business by getting started.
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1. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M
Most money, 90 percent, contain cocaine in the dollar bills. Furthermore, a flu on money can last for 10 dollars, which is why hand sanitizer are vital when handling dollar bills.
2. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M
The Chinese were the first people to use paper money around 1,000 years ago. They stopped using the bills for a few hundred years when they went through hyperinflation. For those who do not know, hyperinflation is when the prices of goods, e.g. food or clothes, increases while the value of money increases. In other words, hyperinflation usually causes most items in the stores and supermarket to become extra expensive. Unfortunately, due to negotiation problems between the government and countries, hyperinflation usually leads to world until a settlement is made.
3. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M
The federal revenue print more Monopoly or fake money than real money. Now tell me that is not astonishing. If that is not astonishing, I do not know what is.
4. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M
66 percent of American money is shipped overseas. Let's me guess where China since America is indebt with that country?
5. Wall Street (1987)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover
Votes: 165,121 | Gross: $43.85M
Before paper money, the word buck originated when Americas use to trade Buck skin to trade or purchase other goods.
6. Trading Places (1983)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Votes: 165,741 | Gross: $90.40M
In 2008, Zimbabwe suffered the highest hyperinflation when their taxes were rated at 6.5 sextillion percent. The price of bread was valued at 300 million Zimbawe dollars, which caused the African country to print out 100 trillion dollar bills that was only worth 5 American dollars.
China and Germany also suffered high hyperinflation rates. In 1923, food in Germany cost more money than it did to purchase clothes.
7. White Men Can't Jump (1992)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Sport
Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell
Votes: 98,256 | Gross: $76.25M
Gambling grosses the highest revenue in the world, which is more than movies, amusement parks, sports, movie theaters, and cruise ships combined. Dang!!!
8. Richie Rich (1994)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family
A rich young boy finds his family the target of an inside job, and must use his cunning to save them.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Edward Herrmann, John Larroquette, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 73,561 | Gross: $38.09M
Sweden has the highest tax rate in the world at 57 percent.
9. Overboard (1987)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 67,848 | Gross: $26.71M
It cost 2.4 cents to create a penny. So why isn't the penny worth two cents? I want my money back.
10. Blank Check (1994)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
After a bike accident, a young boy inadvertently gains possession of a check for $1 million and proceeds to spend it, unaware that the gangsters it belongs to are in pursuit.
Director: Rupert Wainwright | Stars: Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, James Rebhorn, Jayne Atkinson
Votes: 22,107 | Gross: $30.58M
If people look closely there is an American flag on the 2 Canadian dollar bill.
11. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama
Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin
Votes: 106,612 | Gross: $52.47M
The largest American dollar bill ever printed is the 100,000 dollars. Dollar Dollar bill yall.
12. Money Talks (1997)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Heather Locklear, Elise Neal
Votes: 31,284 | Gross: $41.07M
Mc Donald makes 75 million dollars a day. The most expensive object ever built is the International Space Station (satellite) priced at 150 billion dollars. The total gross network of the world is 75 trillion dollars.
13. Vegas Vacation (1997)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
In the fourth outing for the vacation franchise, the Griswolds have to survive Vegas fever when they go to Las Vegas for a fun family vacation.
Director: Stephen Kessler | Stars: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry
Votes: 53,113 | Gross: $36.43M
5 percent of people who purchased lottery ticket spent 51 percent toward the lottery. I guess they live by the motto "you never know."
14. For the Love of Money (2012)
R | 93 min | Crime, Thriller
One man leaves his old gangster lifestyle for a fresh start. As his past creeps up, he'll have to protect his family, even if it means going back to his old ways. Based on a true story.
Director: Ellie Kanner | Stars: James Caan, Edward Furlong, Inbar Lavi, Oded Fehr
Votes: 1,083
Money does not come from trees, but is in fact made out of linen and cotton.
15. Money (2007)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
When money is brought into the table where five friends are having dinner, events that follow take drastic turn as plans are made and relationships are altered.
Director: San Banarje | Stars: Trisha Ray, Mikhail Sebastian, Brice Poisson, Jason Bell
Votes: 44
It would take an average person 317 years to spend a 10,000,000,000 single dollar bills if they attempted to do every second daily. Go ahead I double dare you Bill Gates.
16. Indecent Proposal (1993)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 78,085 | Gross: $106.61M
The life expectancy for coins are 30 years, 15 years for longer bills, and 4 years for smaller bills.
17. It Takes Two (1995)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Alyssa and Amanda are two little girls who are identical, but complete strangers, that accidentally meet one day.
Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen
Votes: 24,865 | Gross: $19.47M
The most counterfeited money is the American dollar bill since it is the most used and popular one. It is also legal to draw faces on US bills regardless of the artist talent.
18. It Could Happen to You (1994)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A police officer promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip.
Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce
Votes: 44,621 | Gross: $37.80M
The largest money ever printed was the Philippines dollar in 1998, which was the same size as a 8 by 10 sheet of paper.
19. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (I) (1999–2020)
TV-G | 60 min | Game-Show
Contestants are chosen based on their ability to arrange 4 answers to a question in the correct order the fastest. They then have 15 multiple-choice questions correctly to win increasing amounts of money, the largest is $1,000,000.
Stars: Regis Philbin, John Carpenter, Meredith Vieira, Michael Shutterly
Votes: 3,088
More money is spent on guns and weapons than health and education. I did not know the world took violence so seriously. What ever happened to world peace, huh?
20. Jeopardy! (1984– )
TV-G | 30 min | Short, Game-Show, Reality-TV
A returning champion and two challengers test their buzzer skills and their knowledge in a wide range of academic and popular categories.
Stars: Alex Trebek, Johnny Gilbert, Jimmy McGuire, Sarah Whitcomb Foss
Votes: 8,215
If you only have 10 dollars while not being in debt you are 25 percent wealthier than the American population.
21. Jobs (2013)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
Director: Joshua Michael Stern | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas
Votes: 103,850 | Gross: $16.13M
Apple makes 300,000 dollars every minute. Sign me up for that payroll.
22. The Apprentice (2004–2017)
TV-PG | 60 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV
Contestants compete for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump.
Stars: Donald Trump, Kendra Todd, Tana Goertz, Ivanka Trump
Votes: 8,770
It is said that if America just create dollar coins instead of dollar bills, they would save 4.4 billion dollars in 30 years. What is America waiting for? I was wanted to use that line.
Blood banks are a 4.5 billion dollar revenue. I did not know people's blood donation was worth that much. I will see who would want to buy some of my blood. Any buyers in the house?
24. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,869,647 | Gross: $534.86M
8 percent of money is physical while the rest of the money is displayed on the computer. I want to see all the proof of the real money right now.
25. Pretty Woman (1990)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 362,032 | Gross: $178.41M
If nosey people look closely there will see all 50 states displayed in the back of the five dollar bill.
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