The Strange People You'll Only Meet On the Subway

The More You Know

• 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.
• Nintendo was founded in 1889. Before it sold video games, the Japanese company specialized in playing cards.
• Finland has more saunas than cars.
• The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.