In 2007, the US Mint produced 2,089,500,000 new dimes. Two trillion! Averaged evenly across the year, this equates to over 66 dimes per second.

A single dime is 0.705 inches in diameter. Lined end-to-end, the dimes produced last year alone would stretch over 23,249 miles. [For comparison, the circumference of the Earth is 24,800 miles].

A single dime weighs 2.268 grams, so there are 200 dimes in one pound. 2007's dime production weighs in at over 10.4 million pounds. [For comparison, my car weighs 2,800 pounds, and the world's heaviest record land mammal, an African elephant found in Angola, weighed 27,000 pounds].