Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (1/27/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Friday – January 27th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. The richest 20% of people worldwide take 80% of all flights, according to estimates by the International Council on Clean Transportation.
2. “National Lampoon’s Vacation” gets credit for killing the station wagon.  After the movie came out, sales plummeted and the minivan almost immediately became the most popular family car.
3. Baskin-Robbins was almost Robbins-Baskin.  They were brothers-in-law, Burton Baskin was married to Irv Robbins’ sister Shirley.  They each had ice cream shops, decided to merge in 1948, and flipped a coin to see whose name would go first.
4. “Tradition” and “treason” both come from the same Latin word tradere, which means “handing over.”
5. Only one scene in the movie “Fargo” is set in the city of Fargo, North Dakota and no scenes were actually filmed there.  The Coen Brothers originally called the movie “Brainerd”, named after the location of the majority of the plot.  They only changed it to “Fargo” when they realized it sounded like a cooler movie title than “Brainerd”.

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

(New York Times / Mental Floss / Los Angeles Times / Mental Floss / ScreenRant)