The average American wastes over 200 pounds of food a year.

MONEY
U.S. paper money is not paper and other fascinating tidbits about the green stuff.
The color green wasn't always synonymous with money.
Bankruptcy may not be the financial kiss of death that you assumed it was.
Professional football players once made $100 a game. When "Red" Grange's agent was done, Grange walked off with $100,000.
The design stories behind the bills (including a tiff between Founding Fathers!).
Billions of paper notes are printed by the government every year, and those paper and ink costs sure do add up.
It wasn't a superior army that vanquished the South; it was a patriotic counterfeiter and his $15 million in fake bills.