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A Kentucky woman was hospitalized after she picked up a dollar bill she suspected was laced with fentanyl on Sunday. 'My body went completely numb, I could barely talk and I could barely breathe. I was fighting to stay awake,' Renne Parson wrote on Facebook. Parson says she was driving with her husband, Justin, and children through Nashville, Tennessee, when the family stopped at a local McDonald's to use the restroom. Renne was holding her three-month-old baby while waiting to use the restroom when she spotted a dollar bill on the ground. 'Thinking nothing of it - I picked it...

Tennessee authorities are warning against picking up folded dollar bills of unknown origin after reporting two separate incidents where the synthetic opioid fentanyl was found inside folded cash. According to the Perry County Sheriff's Office, someone found a folded dollar bill on the floor of a local gas station on both occasions. A "white powdery substance," which later tested positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl, was found inside of the bills. "This is very dangerous, folks!" the sheriff's office said. "Please share and educate your children to not pick up the money." tndollar.jpg On two separate occasions, a dollar bill was...

The U.S. national debt would reach 1.1 million miles into space if stacked in one dollar bills. According to the latest available data from the U.S. Treasury, the total public debt outstanding is $16,738,105,803,858.21. A dollar bill is .0043 inches in thickness. … Thus, the national debt would stretch 1,135,951 miles into the air. …

You’ll have heard the speech by now. Barack Obama yesterday addressed a large crowd and said that McCain was Going to try and make you scared of me. [polite applause] You know, “He’s not patriotic enough.” [polite applause] “He’s got a funny name.” [polite applause] You know, “He doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollars bills.” [loud, sustained applause, accompanied by hooting and, yes, hollering] Presidents? Well, never mind that. What’s more interesting is that journalists heard the cheering and knew what it meant, which forced an Obama campaign spokesman to say that "What Barack Obama was...