1. Through its 149th and final show, Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” sold more than $2 billion in tickets . . . DOUBLE the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history. (The tour ran from March of 2023 to December of 2024.)
2. The founder of Jersey Mike’s Subs is not named Mike. He’s a guy named Peter Cancro, who worked at a shop called Mike’s Subs in New Jersey when he was in high school, then decided to buy it and franchise it.
3. The Nobel Peace Prize can only go to someone living. It wasn’t given out in 1948 because Gandhi had just been assassinated and the committee ruled, quote, “there was no suitable living candidate.”
4. A librarian at the University of New Hampshire saved for his whole life and left $4 million to the school when he died. And they used $1 million of it on a new football scoreboard, which wasn’t exactly his vision.
5. The Cliffs Notes version of “The Scarlet Letter” outsells the actual book almost four to one.
