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Strange Random Money & Currency Facts
In 2000, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is the second wealthiest woman, with $5,2 billion. Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world; an estimated 82% of Australians bet. That is twice as much per capita as Europeans or Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1% of the world population, has 20% of the world’s poker machines. A third of the world’s people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day. In the 1400s, global income rose only 0,1% per year; today it often tops 5%. Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes. Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount on Christmas gifts. Small-time gamblers who place small bet in order to prolong the excitement of a game are called “dead fish” by game operators because the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing. The income gap between the richest fifth of the world’s people and the poorest measured by average national income per head increased from 30 to one in 1960, to 74 to one in 1998. Annual global spending on education is $80 billion. Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year – about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth. The global expenditure on healthcare and nutrition is $13 billion. The average age of Forbes’s 400 wealthiest individuals is 63. If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world. In the 17th century, wool fabrics accounted for about two-thirds of England’s foreign trade. Today, the leading wool producers are Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and China. One million dollars’ worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons. Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion. In 1900, the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce. It reached $600 in 1930, now struggling to reach $400 per ounce. In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap. Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb). The term “smart money” refers to gamblers who have inside information or have arranged a fix, the gambling term for insuring the outcome of an event by illegal methods. |
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