Did You Know Facts - Money

The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.

If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.

Excessive use of credit is cited as a major cause of non-business bankruptcy, second only to unemployment.

Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount onChristmas gifts.

If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.

In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.

80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.