The More You Know

• The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
• The majority of polar bears live in Canada—not in the Arctic.
• 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.
• The patient in the game Operation has a name.