Fact of the Day: Blow Stuff Up Promote Peace

Alfred Nobel started the Noble Peace Prize. However did you know how they get the money to award it's recipients? Nobel had created dynamite and had gained a fortune through it. I assume he made a peace prize mainly because of the violent uses people made for his creation. Feeling guilty and such. 

A Look Into History: First Nobel Peace Prize

The first Peace Prize (award given for peace not something like economics or math) was given in 1901, and two men had to share the prize for separate things. The first man was Henry Dunant who founded the Red Cross.The other man was Frédéric Passy who was one of the founding members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Peace Congress.