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    Michael Jackson has made over $50 million in just two months after his death from music sales.

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    Reblogged from The Triumph Of Magic Over The Brute..

    September 09, 2009, 4:10pm   Comments

    OMFG, fo' realz?! of the week

    Few records set by former US President George W. Bush: The record for the biggest annual deficit in history. An economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. An all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market. AND… In his first year in office, he set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.



    June 02, 2009, 11:02am   Comments

    If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.



    April 26, 2009, 5:00pm   Comments

    If you're going to do a coin toss to decide whatever, you should pick tails. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

    If you get heads, throw once more. ;)



    Tags: money

    April 25, 2009, 2:02pm   Comments

    The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic ship itself.



    Tags: money

    April 23, 2009, 5:02pm   Comments

    For his entire forty-seven years in government, Herbert Hoover turned over each of his Federal salary checks to charity. He had become independently wealthy before entering politics.



    April 23, 2009, 2:00pm   Comments

    Demetrius Poliorcetes, King of Macedonia, paid Lamia, a Greek courtesan 250 talents for sex. He made the people of his city raise the money (by raising a soap tax). 250 talents today is the equivalent of $64.9 million.



    April 23, 2009, 11:00am   Comments

    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.



    Tags: moneymath

    April 15, 2009, 8:03pm   Comments

    An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.



    April 15, 2009, 5:02pm   Comments

    $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.



    April 14, 2009, 2:00pm   Comments