Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (10/10/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration than he was to his own Presidential inauguration.
2. There’s a patron saint of the Internet.  It’s Saint Isidore of Seville.
3. Coins from 1931 to 1933 are extremely rare, because in the Great Depression, no one needed them, so the U.S. Mint stopped producing almost all of them.
4. You could fit all 10 of the smallest countries in the world into Houston, Texas.  Their total size is 576 square miles, Houston is 627 square miles.  The 10 countries include Vatican City, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Grenada.
5. Sweden is the only country that’s ever had a February 30th.  It happened in 1712, when they were transitioning from the old Julian calendar system to the modern Gregorian calendar.

Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!

(Newsweek / Wikipedia / NGC Coin / World Atlas / Wikipedia)