Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (3/28/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Tuesday – March 28th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. Years after Wyatt Earp’s famous turn at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona, he rambled around L.A. as an unpaid consultant for silent cowboy movies.
2. There’s actually a phobia called consecotaleophobia (con-sec-o-tal-e-o-pho-bi-a) where you’re afraid of CHOPSTICKS.
3. There was once an American federal holiday called The Eighth, which commemorated the final battle of the War of 1812 on January 8th, 1815.  It stopped being celebrated during the Civil War, and is now totally defunct.
4. Banks could design money to look however they wanted until 1861, when the U.S. Treasury stepped in and standardized everything.  Before that, special Christmas money was pretty common, including a lot of bills that featured pictures of Santa.
5. The most racially diverse religious group in America is the Seventh-Day Adventists, followed by Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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

(New York Times / Psych Times / Wikipedia / New York Fed / Pew Research)