Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (5/4/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Thursday, May 4th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. The strands of hair on the head of Donald Trump’s wax replica at Madame Tussauds are a mix of human and yak.  For his eyebrows, they used squirrel hair.
2. Only one player has ever died from an injury they got during a Major League Baseball game.  Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with a pitch in 1920, and died 12 hours later.
3. The United States has been around for 247 years, and involved in at least one war for 230 of them.  And no president has ever gone their entire term without the country being involved in a war.
4. The first Sega has the longest lifespan of any video game console.  The Sega Master System came out in 1986, and it’s still being produced in Brazil by a company that bought the rights.  They even make new games for it.
5. The oldest newspaper in the U.S. is the “Hartford Courant”.  It’s been published without a break since 1764.

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

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