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MONEY TIP!
keep a money
dIary. wrItIng
down what you
spend wIll help
you see what
your spendIng
habIts are—and
show you
where you
mIght be able
to save.BY KRISTIN BAIRD RATTINIA machine called a jogger vibrates and blows air to separate
U.S. banknotes that stick together after printing.Bricks of
compressed
tea leaves
were once
used as
currency
in Siberia,
Mongolia,
and China.A
nearly
230-
year-
old
penny
once sold for
$1.38 million.One king celebrated
a horse-racing
victory in 356 B.C. by
minting a coin with
an image of his horse
and its rider.The phrase “bring home the bacon” started
after a 12th-century priest rewarded a
married couple with bacon.Norway
doesn’t issue
change.
Purchases are
rounded up or
down to the
nearest krone
(like the U.S.
dollar).The Inca called gold
“the sweat of
the sun”
and silver
“the tears of
the moon.”In 2002, a man
opened a fake
bank and took
in $650,
before he
was caught.In Argentina,
mango is slang
for peso, which
is like the
U.S. dollar.