In my experience foreign money handlers, be it banks, tourist operators or whatever, dislike coins, not just dimes. When you exchange money to buy foreign currency the usual procedure is you buy foreign notes and you pay the small change to make up the usually round amount in the foreign currency notes in local coins.
Yeah, like I said, the claim seems questionable.
So, exactly like every other word in the language.
The word “dime” means “tenth”, just like “cent” means “hundredth”. The coins say “one dime” and “one cent”. The only difference is we don’t use the word “dime” in other contexts much any more.
In fact, it’s the “nickel” that is the outlier. All other currently minted coins under a dollar are stamped with their fractional dollar value: “half”, “quarter”, “dime”, “cent”. Only the five-cent piece has a non-fraction. (We used to have “half cent” coins as well.)
I think the confusion might be thinking that “dime” is a slang term like “nickel” or “penny”. It is not, it’s a fractional word.
Even more so, American coins do not have numerals. Makes it hard for young kids and non-English speakers to know the value of the coins.
It’s official name is the five cent piece and “Five Cents” is what is stamped on it.
It says right there in the name that you are supposed to ask: in Spanish, “dime” means “tell me”.
And the 5-cent nickel replaced the 3-cent nickel.
Getting a little meta the word factoid is relatively new, coined by Norman Mailer in 1973. He defined it as a fake fact that first appeared in print in a newspaper or magazine as the original source. It might be true but there’s no true original source.
By the early 1980s the more common usage was similar to trivia.
The half-dime - or half-disme (pronounced “deem”) - was a silver coin worth five cents. It was minted through 1873.
So Americans once had “thruppence”. 
And worth three times a much as a single US vice-president.
Yes, and that’s its explicit value. A dime coin is worth one dime, just like a cent coin is worth one cent and a dollar coin is worth one dollar. “Dime” is one of the five units of money, in the US (the other four being “Mill”, “Cent”, “Dollar”, and “Eagle”).
The first movie to include a scene where someone walks on the walls and ceiling in a room was not Royal Wedding in 1951 (where Fred Astaire dances on them). If you haven’t seen that scene before, you can do so now on YouTube. It was in the 1919 silent film When the Clouds Roll By. You can watch that whole film on YouTube.
Ladies: don’t felate and get stabbed at the same time, you may become pregnant.
For real. Link goes to a reputable source, Live Science.
Thanks. Found it. Here is the scene.
YouTube had been recommending Dr. Collier’s video on Richard Feynman, and the various things he’s had posthumously attached to his name, for a while so I finally got around to watching it. I had kind of assumed that Richard Feynman’s books were written by Richard Feynman, and were not transcripts of him chatting with his colleague’s son over drum sessions. It’s not like Dr. Collier is blowing this one open; checking James Gleick’s biography, he mentions it (and Feynman’s opposition to calling Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman an autobiography) towards the end. But the role Ralph Leighton has played in his legacy was new to me.
(in retrospect this makes sense)
Like, the context Gleick and Collier provide explains why so much of Surely You’re Joking…, rereading it now, does sound like a 50-year-old with a complex about not being thought of (as Gleick puts it) as a “sissy” trying to sound cool to a guy 30 years his junior. Like, of course you played pranks on people by breaking into safes to read classified material at the freaking Manhattan Project and then you pretended to speak Chinese to someone who speaks Chinese and they got embarrassed because they thought you were speaking Cantonese and they only speak Mandarin and then you beat up a biker dude in a bar and scared his friends off. Those are things that for sure happened, bud 
That’s a 2 hour 48 minute video. Um. maybe I’ll watch it when …, um, well, not now at least.
That article concludes that sperm migrated from her damaged digestive tract to the uterus, but I’d think it more plausible that some semen ended up on her skin and went in with the stabbing.
Hmm, kind of reminiscent of the Civil War era “bullet pregnancy” hoax.
That was not a hoax, it was a great monologue from Tom Waits in his film and album “Big Time”. It was hilarious. I’ll look for it later in the web.
Found it: it was the intro to “Train Song”. Brilliant! The Snopes article was later and should have mentioned it IMO.