Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (10/28/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Friday – October 28th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

1. More than five billion phones will be thrown away in 2022, more than enough to stretch all the way around the equator.
2. According to the Trader Joe’s website, the reason the stores have a tropical theme and the employees wear Hawaiian shirts is, quote, “we’re traders on the culinary seas, searching the world over for cool items to bring home to our customers.”
3. The different apron colors at Starbucks mean different things. The standard one is the green apron. A black apron is given to long-time team members who have earned the coveted “Coffee Master” designation. Red and orange aprons have been worn for various holidays. The rarest apron is purple.  These are for “Barista Champions,” and only 26 employees are granted the honor each year.
4. The price of textbooks increases by an average of 12% with each new edition.  nd between 1977 and 2015, the cost of textbooks increased 1,041%.
5. The world record for the most LOST elections belongs to a guy in Canada named John Turmel, who’s lost 100 elections and counting. He’s lost for everything from city council to Canada’s parliament.

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

(Study Finds / Trader Joe’s / NY Post / Education Data /Wikipedia)