Newspaper Headlines That’ll Leave You Either Laughing Or Confused

The More You Know

• The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
• Tic Tacs got their name from the sound they make.
• The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.
• It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.