A US Treasury Official Decided To Feature Himself On Currency

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
08/08/2023 3 min Temporada 5 Episodio 1065

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Episode Synopsis

For National Dollar Day, the story of the time a guy overseeing the printing of US money decided the best person to feature on that money was… himself. Plus: for International Cat Day, a look at a 19 foot long fiberglass cat in Pine Island, New York.
A Treasury Official in 1866 Put His Own Face on U.S. Currency (Atlas Obscura) 
The Biggest Cat In The World (WeirdNJ via YouTube)
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