Money Facts

• 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.
• A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
• One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.
• TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
• The term "Blue Chip" comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.
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20 Interesting Facts about Snakes

• There are around 3000 snake species in the world, and about 375 of these are venomous.
• Snake venom is a complex mixture of proteins that, once unleashed, rapidly spreads through the victim’s body. Neurotoxic venom, which destroys the nervous system, is the variety that kills quickest.
• Anaconda can grow up to 38 feet in length, the brahminy blind snake is just 2 inches long, making it the smallest snake.
• Snakes have two long lungs, a long liver, kidneys and intestines. The last quarter of the snake has a small anal opening covered by a scale called the anal plate, and the rest is tail made up of more bone.
• The paradise tree-snake of South-east Asia can ‘fly’ through the air by flattening its body into an s-shaped ribbon.