Alex Covert — March 3, 2008 — Luxury
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Do you remember Donald Duck's wealthy uncle swimming in his vault of coins? I came across an interesting blog post that illustrates how large a real-life Uncle Scrooge swimming pool would have to be in order for some of the richest people in the world to float in their fortunes. Take a look. Here are scaled-drawings of US dollars bills stacked on top of each other.
$6
$3,000
$9,000,000
$900,000,000
$87,000,000,000
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