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Interesting Facts
THE TEARS from your eyes are the most powerful germ-killers devised by nature. One teaspoonful gives antiseptic properties to 100 gallons of w^ter. IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR the U. S. Treasury burned up 1,490,022,294 pieces of paper currency, with a face value of $6,746,972,715, as unfit for further use; 87 per cent of it was $1 bills.
FOR EVERY 2 AMERICANS who saved money last year, one spent more than he earned. A total of 17,000,000 of us went into debt. Only 7 per cent of us spent exactly what we earned.
80.4%