Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (1/10/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Monday – January 10th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

1. Turkmenistan will try to extinguish its “Gateway to Hell,” a mysterious fire that has been burning for decades in a huge desert gas crater. Some people believe it formed when a Soviet drilling operation went wrong in 1971, but more recent investigations have failed to determine how it started.
2. Starbucks goes through an estimated six billion coffee cups per year.
3. The CEO of the company that owns Tinder, Match.com, and OKCupid says he’s never been on an online date.
4. Bears are NOT drawn to menstruating women. It’s a myth that’s still going strong, even though a study debunked it almost 25 years ago.
5. George Lucas only directed two movies in his career that aren’t “Star Wars” films:  “THX 1138” and “American Graffiti”.

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

(BBC / Eater / Time / Jstor / Wikipedia)