Page 30 - Business Facts

Canada made a usable $1,000,000 coin!

A coin was actually introduced in 1979 sporting the official Canadian maple leaf and it is the official bullion gold coin of Canada produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. Walter Ott spearheaded the idea of the coin. It is one of the purest gold regular-issue coins of the world. The coin has a gold content of .9999 millesimal fineness. 

It literally has no base metals in it. It is pure gold from Canadian mines. In 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint introduced a coin worth $1,000,000. At the time, the gold content was actually worth $2,000,000. It measures 50 centimeters in diameter by 3 centimeters thick. Its mass is 100 kilograms and has a purity of 99.9999 percent. It is mainly a promotional product designed by Stanley Witten. 

The idea is that it’ll give the mint a higher international profile. The coin was a kick-off to showcase the mint’s new line of 99.9999 percent, pure, one ounce Gold Maple Leaf bullion coins. After several buyers came forward, the mint decided to make the $1,000,000 coin and sell it for $2 to $3 million. 

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There’s a pill that makes you poop gold!

We’ve cracked the secret to alchemy…in poop! Well, not really. For $275 you can buy a starter kit with three capsules containing gold crumbs. Yes, edible gold was crumbled up and placed in pill capsules. The kit was created by Tobias Wong and Just Another Rich Kid for the New Museum, who sells them. 

The New Museum’s website describes the expensive pills as “Pure gold passes through the body and ends up in your stool resulting in sparkly s***.” Museum members get the gold pills at a 10% discount. The collection of three pills cost $91.67 per pill. It’s actually quite the deal, because other places are selling the pills for $429. 

Dave Chapelle’s MTAV Cribs parody showcased diamond dust in his food, because it made his “dookie twinkle.” Now, you can make yours twinkle yellow with really expensive gold pills with absolutely no purpose. Seriously, who would want to dig the gold out of their stool. 

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Chipotle might be ripping you off!

Or you might be getting a few extra cents from them. It's being reported that Chipotle has started doing something strange with their bills: they're rounding bills to the nearest quarter. For example, a bill that should have been $35.24 was turned into $35.25. 

The reason they're doing this is supposedly so that they can get people in and out of the store faster. It makes sense. Giving change in quarters is easier than going down to the individual cent. Chipotle says that the rounding basically takes money from some bills and gives it to others, so it's not Chipotle just taking pennies. 

Still, the practice is illegal in certain areas if you don't tell people that's what you're doing. So in many markets, people have been protesting and Chipotle has added a 'rounding' line on customer's bills. Next time you're at a Chipotle (especially in New Jersey, where this practice was found), check the bill to see if they added or took some money from your bill.

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Coke drinkers are more likely to have graduated college than Pepsi drinkers!

Coke v. Pepsi is an old rivalry that seems to have no end in sight. It's been a great marvel of marketing to see these brands ebb and flow through the years. Coke has always had a slight edge, and is the most popular around the world. In the US, Pepsi performs slightly better, and even overtook Coke for a while through a series of clever ad campaigns. 

However, a research company has found that there are some interesting differences between people who identify themselves as Coke or Pepsi folk: 

Coke drinkers are more likely to have graduated college and speak more than one language.

Coke people prefer things like sushi, and might have tasted caviar. Pepsi drinkers prefer American snacks.

Coke drinkers read the New York Times, while Pepsi drinkers read the USA Today.

Coke drinkers are more likely to own a passport. It's more likely that Pepsi drinkers haven't had a vacation in 6 months. 

Coke drinkers are more likely to show up early to an appointment. Pepsi drinkers? On time or late. 

What do you think? Of course these are in average, and not representative of every Coke or Pepsi drinker. 

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30 years ago, one could buy a pass for lifelong, unlimited first-class travel with American Airlines. Now American Airlines is suing people who did.

There are people who have purchased tickets earning them first class travel for life on American Airlines. As you might imagine, a lifelong first class pass is a pretty sweet thing. You can fly anywhere any time for any reason- all in first class. These passes, when they were available, had cost more than $350,000 and allowed the owner to have a free +1. 

Some of the men who still own them have surpassed 30 million miles in flight. But unfortunately American Airlines isn’t too happy with the 66 people doing things like this. These people have been costing AA millions of dollars, and as you may know, the airlines haven’t been doing so well lately. 

To try and cut down on the owners of these passes, AA started investigating them to try and catch them doing something wrong. As a result, many of the owners were taken to court or had their passes revoked for some fairly bogus claims of “fraudulent behavior.” 

The behavior in question included things like reserving seats but not taking the flight, or using a +1 on a stranger. Many of these cases are still ongoing, as this only broke in May 2012, but it’s truly sad to see AA covering its mistakes in such an ugly way. 

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