This evening on the ride home from school, Ben asked, “How many dollar bills would fit in a mile?” Thanks to Wikipedia , we now know…
- Lined up end-to-end, approximately 10,319 singles would stretch one mile.
- Aranged top-to-bottom, approximately 24,276 singles would stretch one mile.
- Bills larger than $100 have been out of print since the Nixon era.
- In 1990, it cost 2.6 cents to print a dollar.
- The $2 bill first appeared in 1862 and was last printed in 1997.
- In mid 2004, over $700 billion in hard currency was in circulation, with over 2/3 held overseas.
- Bills were once red and other colors.
And on we learn…