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Money Laundering

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Have been amazed you ever that accidental­ly it survived? run You a can dollar thank bill through the Bureau the of wash Engraving and and Printing’s durability lab, where scientists soak bills in chemicals, crumple them up, and throw them into a washing machine with detergent and a set of towels, all to make sure they can survive the indignitie­s of countless cash transactio­ns. Says chemist Joe Piekarski about being surrounded by all that cash, “It helps to think of it as Monopoly money.”

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