Nobel Prizes: Is there a secret formula to winning one?

So the European Union just got their Nobel Peace Prize. That comes as a bit of a surprise. Here’s why: The EU is neither American, nor did it study in Harvard. It doesn’t even shave regularly. Those are three out of eight ingredients in the magic Nobel Prize winning formula that the BBC has come up with. Interestingly enough, if you take the European Coal and Steel Community as the first step towards the EU, it meets two criteria of the formula: Born in spring and 61 years old. Spooky.