Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (3/14/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Monday – March 14th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

  1. 92% of the world’s currency is digital.
  2. Hello Kitty was created in Japan . . . but she’s British.  Because when Hello Kitty was created in the 1960s, British culture was trendy in Japan.
  3. The yellow “Support Our Troops” ribbon is trademarked . . . by the Canadian government.  It can only be used legally with their permission.
  4. Abraham Lincoln didn’t meet his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, until after they were elected.  Lincoln picked him because Hamlin was from Maine, to help get votes from the northeast.
  5. The first time the “New York Times” mentioned Adolf Hitler was on November 21st, 1922.  The article said, quote, “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded.”

Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this week!

 

(Rory Callaghan / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Vox)

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