Particles & Waves

By EdwardFenner

I found somebody's Willy

It's not as dirty as it sounds. This Canadian $5 bill (aka Willy for Sir Wilfred Laurier, the late Canadian prime minister depicted on the bill) came to my wife from a bank and then to me. The website WheresWilly is a fun and freaky place were currency nerds mark paper money (as seen above) and register the bill. They then spend it. It gets found "in the wild" by folk like me who, they hope, go to the site and register the bill again providing the postal code and some info on the bill's condition, how it was acquired, and where it was spent. It is a spin-off of the American WheresGeorge (for George Washington).

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