Free Cash In The Street But Nobody Wants it!

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Have you ever found a $5 bill in the street and felt like it’s your lucky day? I know I have. What if you found $500, though? Would you still take it? How about $500,000?! Well, believe it or not, only recently an entire country’s worth of people were faced with this very question – and none of them chose to take any of it! In fact, some of them even threw it away! All this despite being so poor they could hardly afford food. Uhh… what?! Well, the whole thing is kinda hard to explain. Let's find out why nobody wanted any of this free cash, and how it ended up in the street in the first place!

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0:46.3	Have you ever found a $5 bill on the street and felt like it's your lucky day? I know I have.
0:53.5	What have you found $500, though? Would you still take it?
0:57.7	How about $500,000? Well, believe it or not, only recently an entire country's worth of people
1:03.7	were faced with this very question, and none of them chose to take any of it. In fact, some of them
1:09.6	even threw it away.
1:14.5	All this, despite being so poor, they could hardly afford food.
1:15.8	The what?
1:18.7	Well, the whole thing is kind of hard to explain.
1:21.8	You're listening.
1:23.9	You're listening.
1:25.1	You're listening to be amazed. I'm going to be amazed.
1:32.3	I'm going to explain this whole crazy situation. But to do that first, we've got to go back to the future.
1:35.3	Oh, sorry, I got carried away there.
1:38.3	We've got to go back to pre-war War I, Germany.
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