Mental Floss

MONEY

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Nothing like a train heist to grab out attention. There's a reason they called it the Wild West.

David K. Israel
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A lot of people assume that it's just the way that coins smell, and the odor is rubbing off on their hands, but you're not smelling the metal so much as you're smelling yourself.

Matt Soniak