45 Things That Are Much Bigger or Smaller Than We Thought

Imagining $10,000 usually conjures visions of hefty stacks of cash. This holds if you imagine it in single-dollar bills, which create the illusion of wealth, whereas the equivalent in hundred-dollar notes appears significantly less.

A stack of $100 bills embodying $10,000 measures a mere half-inch in thickness. This visual is often used to make tangible the enormity of figures like the national debt. Regardless of denomination, we’d happily accept $10,000 in any form.