Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (1/11/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Tuesday – January 11th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

1. The now-extinct Passenger Pigeon was, in all probability, once the most abundant bird on the planet.
2. Only three of the 15 highest-grossing ’80s movies haven’t had a remake, sequel or prequel:  “E.T.”, “Tootsie”, and “Rain Man”.
3. The average person passes gas 10 times every 24 hours and produces a full liter of flatulence.
4. There’s a significant LSD shortage in the U.S., and there has been for more than a decade. It’s because it’s virtually impossible to get one of the ingredients required to make it, a chemical compound called ergot alkaloid.
5. There’s a town in Alaska called Whittier with a population of about 270 people . . . all of whom live in one 14-story building that used to be an Army barracks.

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

(Stanford / Marketwatch / BBC / io9 / NPR – Wikipedia)