Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (11/17/21)
November 17, 2021 4:18AM CST
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Wednesday – November 17th, 2021. Let’s learn something together:
- Sweden has more than 221,800 islands, the most of any country in the world. Finland is second, followed by Norway, Canada, and Indonesia.
- There are about 100,000 payphones left in the U.S., and one-fifth are in New York. In 1999, there were two million payphones.
- The famous philosopher Voltaire made all of his money in 1729 when he was 35, when he realized the jackpot of the French lottery was more than the cost of buying every single ticket. So he bought every ticket and won a jackpot of about 500,000 francs . . . roughly the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars today.
- The screenplay for the James Bond movie “You Only Live Twice” was written by the children’s author Roald Dahl.
- The core of the Earth is hotter than the surface of the sun.
Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this week!
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