Did You Know...

Did you know the average life expectancy of your one-dollar bill is just 18 months or that you can fold a dollar bill 8,000 times before it will tear?

Did you know the dollar bill isn't actually paper? US bills are 75% cotton and 25% linen.

Did you know that 38 million bills are printed each day by the Bureaus of Engraving and Printing? That's all denominations of our paper money for a grand total of $541 million dollars.

Did you know it takes a stack of 490 bills to weigh just one pound? Did you know a dollar bill is .0043" thick?

Did you know the word "dollar," which appears on both sides of the bill, is a variation of the German word Taler, the name of a silver piece that was 1st coined in 1518?

Did you know the first paper currency issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury were Demand Notes Series 1861?

Did you know if you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke?

Did you know Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note? It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.

Did you know the very first one-dollar bill had a picture of Salmon Chase on it? Chase was the sixth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln. The one-dollar bill featuring President George Washington was released in 1869.

Did you know nearly one-half of all bills printed in the United States are one-dollar bills?

Did you know that the eagle seal on the back of the dollar bill is actually taken from a centuries old seal of the 6-Nations of the Iroquois? (Except the 6-Nations seal didn't have the E Pluribus Unum banner, and it was holding 6 arrows in its talon instead of the current 13).

Did you know there are 293 ways to make change for a US dollar?