Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (10/26/21)
October 26, 2021 3:54AM CDT
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Tuesday – October 26th, 2021. Let’s learn something together:
- There are only 16 countries with more land area than Alaska. And just as a reminder, Alaska is more than double the size of Texas.
- The state that manufactures the most guns is New Hampshire. It’s followed by Missouri, Florida, North Carolina, and Mississippi.
- Harvard University was founded before calculus was invented. Harvard was established in 1636, calculus wasn’t created until 1684.
- WWW is the only three-letter acronym that has three times more syllables than what it stands for. WWW is nine syllables, “world wide web” is three.
- U.S. Mail was actually delivered TWICE a day, until April 17th, 1950.
Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this week!
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