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As you may know, I'll be traveling, um, flying in late May. And although some of the fears on this map are kind of silly, they are totally justifiable. So what do travelers fear in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois?

With all the talk of how broke the US government is, you might be surprised to learn there’s over a billion one-dollar coins sitting unused in Federal Reserve vaults. And the US Mint is still cranking them out. NPR’s Planet Money and Investigations teams found that the coins are the wasteful byproducts of a failed congressional effort to get Americans to use them in everyday commerce.