Facts About a Million Dollars

• Parker Brothers once sent an armored car with one million dollars of the MONOPOLY® game money to a marathon game in Pittsburgh that had run out of funds.
• In January, 1938, Shirley Temple – with lines of Shirley Temple dolls, dresses, and coloring books – became the youngest person to ever earn a million dollars.
• Betty Grable had her legs insured for a million dollars. (By comparison, dancer Fred Astaire had his legs insured for a paltry $75,000 each.)
• Marlene Dietrich had her distinctive voice insured for a million dollars.
• In 1978, Dave Parker of the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first Major League Baseball player with a million-dollar-per-year contract.
• A stack of one million dollar bills is about 333 feet tall – as tall as St. Isaacs Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• In March, 2007, luxury goods creator Luvaglio introduced the first million dollar laptop computer, featuring a rare-colored diamond power button.
• For a million dollars, you could treat 699,300 of your closest friends to a small cone at Polly’s Freeze in Georgetown, IN.
• On November 19, 1999, John Carpenter of Hamden, CT, became the first person to win a million dollars on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.