Even though one-dollar coins aren't very popular in the US, the law requires the US Mint to keep producing them. Because of this, there are 1.1 billion one-dollar coins in the US Federal Reserve vaults. A stack of all of those coins would be 1,367 miles long, or long enough to stretch from New Mexico to Chicago.
I learned this from "Why the US keeps minting coins people hate and won't use" on the BBC. (Sometimes I read things other than Wikipedia!)
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