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Facts in category: Money
| Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992. |
| In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. |
| If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. |
| If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. |
| America once issued a 5-cent bill. |
| All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. |
| About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. |
| A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. |
| A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. |
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