Continental currency collapse silver dollar exchange rate

A thousand Continental dollars equaled one silver dollar

During the American Revolution, Congress and the states issued Continental dollars without a shared money policy, and neither had the means or will to remove the bills. After the currency collapsed, it was replaced at a rate of one silver dollar for 1,000 Continental dollars. The failure helped prompt the Constitution to bar states from making anything but gold and silver coins legal payment for debts.

Lake Superior could spread a shallow layer of water across both Americas

~30 cm deep

Lake Superior contains roughly 12,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater. If that water were spread evenly over the land area of North and South America, it would form a layer roughly 30 centimeters deep. The comparison makes the scale of the lake easier to imagine: one body of water holds an astonishing volume.

Stone tools may predate the genus Homo

At Lomekwi 3 in Kenya, stone tools date to 3.3 million years ago—earlier than known evidence for toolmaking around 2.5 million years ago. The toolmakers may have belonged to a species that lived before the genus Homo, a group of human species.

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A thousand Continental dollars equaled one silver dollar

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