It's all about money...trivia

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness

 

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            Show Me the Money - it's too heavy  

 

The world's largest coins, in size and standard value,  

were copper plates used in Alaska around 1850. They were  

about a meter (3 ft) long, half-a-meter (about 2 ft)  

wide, weighed 40 kg (90 lb), and were worth $2,500.  

 

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                       Gambling Slang  

 

In gambling language, for a gambling house a "sure-thing"  

is a wager that a player has little chance of winning;  

"easy money" is their profit from an inexperienced bettor,  

an unlucky player is called a "stiff."  

 

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                 Nokia: a phone and a town  

 

In 1865, Frederik Idestam founded a wood-pulp mill in  

southern Finland, naming it Nokia. It rapidly gained  

worldwide recognition, attracting a large number of  

workers and the town Nokia was born. In 1898, the Finnish  

Rubber Works Company opened in Nokia, taking on the town  

name in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a  

majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. In 1967,  

the companies consolidated to become the Nokia Group. The  

recession of the 1990s led the group to focus on the mobile  

phone market.