This $20 bill, somehow misprinted with a Del Monte banana sticker,
sold for $25,300 at an auction in Orlando, Florida. Link

Apparently, love comes at a steep price in South Korea. From the website:

South Korean companies looked at the wild success of Valentine’s Day celebrations in their country and found ways to sell their goods and services through a tie-up with love, marketing officials say.

Thanks to shrewd marketing in a society focused on commerce as well as love and matrimony, there is a special day on the 14th of each month for lovers to celebrate as well as a few other goodies along the way.

There are as many as 21 anniversaries, special days and celebrations every year! This very interesting Reuters article explains it all: Link

Fannie Mills was born in 1859 with Milroy Disease, which caused her legs to swell – and I mean, really swell!

… it was heavily advertised that her Father had provided a dowry of "$5,000 and a well-stocked farm" to the first man who would take his daughter for a wife. (Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Mills was now deceased and never owned a farm!) It is reported that Fannie had fun with the ruse and it is a fact that she did receive many offers of marriage from all sorts of men from all over the country (the majority of whom were simply gold-diggers). In the mean time Fannie did (quietly) marry.

Link (via Jaf Project)

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