Part 3: Fascinating Facts on U.S. Currency

Here's the third and final part of our series Fascinating Facts on U.S. Currency:

23. Apparently, enough people go to banks and other businesses to find $2 bills that there's a name for it: Tom Crawl.

24. "White cents" were made from 88 parts copper to 12 parts nickel, which gave them a light or white color. 

25. All U.S. notes are made from cotton-linen combination. 

26. The U.S. prints 37 million bills a day, or $696 million dollars. 

27. A mile of pennies laid out is $844.80, by this standard, America is about $2.5 million wide, coast to coast. 

28. The estimated lifespan of a $10 bill is 3.6 years, $5 bill is 3.8 years, $1 bill is 4.8 years and $100 bill is 18 years. The life expectancy of a circulating coin is 30 years. 

29. Five-cent coins minted from 1942 to 1945 aren't nickels because they don't have any nickel in them. 

30. Counterfeit dollars are frequently detected because they are more perfect than authentic money. 

31. One million $1 bills would weigh almost as much as a 1966 Beetle. 

32. No African Americans have ever appeared on paper money. 

33. The largest note ever printed was the $100,000 Gold certificate, used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and did not circulate. 

Here it is, 33 fascinating facts about the notes and coins of the largest and most powerful economy in the world.