Museum's million-dollar cash display actually holds $1.5 million, visitor finds
A visitor to Chicago's Federal Reserve Money Museum uncovered an error hiding in its famous "million-dollar cube."
Calvin Liang created a tool to analyze photos of the cube. His count revealed 102 x 8 x 19 stacks of hundred-bill bundles, totaling $1,550,400 — more than half a million dollars over the advertised amount.
Liang went…
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