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Money: A U.S. dollar bill of any denomination weighs 1 gram (0.035 oz). There are 454 grams in a pound. One million dollar bills would weigh 1 megagram (1,000 kg; 2,200 lb) or 1 tonne (just over 1 short ton). Time: A million seconds, 1 megasecond, is 11.57 days. In Indian English and Pakistani English, it is also expressed as 10 lakh.
Property taxes are also expressed in terms of mills per dollar assessed (a mill levy, known more widely in the US as a "mill rate"). For instance, with a millage rate of 2.8₥, a house with an assessment of $100,000 would be taxed (2.8 × 100,000) = 280,000₥, or $280.00.
Large-denomination currency (i.e., banknotes with a face value of $500 or higher) [1] had been used in the United States since the late 18th century. [2] The first $500 note was issued by North Carolina, authorized by legislation dated May 10, 1780. [3]
For example, if your check is for $19.99, you would write it out as “Nineteen and 99/100.” It’s advised to include “00/100” with whole dollar amounts. It’s also advised to write only ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
In D.C., $100 is only worth $84.60. Money goes furthest in Mississippi where $100 is equal to $115.17. Arkansas offers the next biggest bang for your buck, followed by Missouri, Alabama and South ...
Young Bobby Gillian—who is a wastrel—is left $1,000 by his uncle Septimus Gillian in his will. In reality, Old Gillian was worth at least half a million dollars. The insignificant amount left to young Gillian is because the elder Gillian knows that Bobby is a wastrel. This money is left only as a test, as to what he does with his money.
Any money collected through an $11 million default judgment that is part of an ongoing civil lawsuit the businesses filed against Martin and her former husband, Tom Martin, in Sedgwick County ...