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“Because Ayn Rand took a crack at it and just made up this…” — Stuff You Should Know at 3:00

“Because Ayn Rand took a crack at it and just made up this idea that the two lines are actually an S over a U, and someone got rid of the loopy bottom of the U, and that U and S stood for United States, and that's where the double-line dollar sign came from. And everybody's like, good try, Ayn Rand. Those two vertical…”

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