Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (1/12/23)
January 12, 2023 4:01AM CST
Big Dave holding up a hand in the KMAD studio. Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Thursday – January 12th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:
- Giving birth in the U.S. is more than 20 times as lethal as skydiving.
- If you cry in space, your tears don’t fall, because there’s no gravity. They just kind of stay up by your eyes until you wipe them away. (Here’s video.)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president whose mother voted for him. He was the fourth president elected after women got the right to vote . . . Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover’s mothers had all passed away before they ran.
- The first six gladiators on “American Gladiators” were supposed to be named Cattalus, Dominoes, Evander, Lace, Willie, and Zap. Lace and Zap survived, but the other four were re-named to sound “cooler” before the show debuted in 1989. That’s how they ended up with Malibu, Nitro, Gemini, and Sunny.
- Elephants are afraid of bees.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(New York Times / NBC News / White House History / Mental Floss / New York Times)
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