Americans spend more money on pets yearly than Germany spends on its entire defense budget.

Thinking about money makes people more determined and focused, but less sensitive to the needs and feelings of others, a study found.

Thinking about money makes people more determined and focused, but less sensitive to the needs and feelings of others, a study found.

By law, only dead people can appear on U.S. currency.

The extinct colossus penguin stood as tall as LeBron James.

Americans throw away US$62 million worth of coins every year.

Sea shells were once commonly used in many parts of the world as money.

Your pup can pick up on subtle changes in your scent, which can help him figure out how you are feeling — such as by smelling your perspiration when you become nervous or fearful. It’s also likely how

1.5 trillion dollars are paid in bribes every year, according to a World Bank estimate.

The first transaction of Bitcoins was to buy pizza for 10,000 Bitcoins, which later increased in value to over US$12 million.

The total amount of money owed by every single person and country in the world is US$199 trillion, but the world has only US$80.9 trillion in cash and bank deposits.

The 100 richest people in the world earned enough money in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times.

The chances of dying on you birthday are 14% higher than on any other day.

Road signs in an Austrian village called Fucking are made of cement to prevent theft

If you die homeless or with no money in New York City, you are buried by prisoners on Hart Island in a mass grave: up to 1000 per grave for children and 50 for adults.

Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year.

The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface

Until the WW2, tea bricks were used as money in Siberia.