Busting Popular Myths That You Probably Thought Were Facts

The More You Know

• There are 293 ways to make change for $1.
• It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
• Almost all chickens eaten today come from the winner of the 1948 'Chicken of Tomorrow' Contest whose genetics now dominate poultry farms worldwide.
• You make approximately a teaspoon of tears per hour.