Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (11/17/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Friday, November 17th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. Could you imagine Hillary Clinton as Donald Trump’s vice president, or Trump as Joe Biden’s VP?  In the original Constitution, the office of the U.S. vice president was awarded to the runner-up in the presidential race.  That changed with the 12th Amendment in 1804.
2. A lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun.  Lightning can be over 53,000 degrees, the sun’s surface is about 10,000 degrees.  (The sun’s core, though, is 27 million degrees.)
3. The U.S. loses a chunk of nature the size of a football field every 30 seconds.
4. JFK didn’t push to get to the Moon because he cared about space exploration, all he was worried about was beating the Russians.
5. 93% of people who survive a suicide attempt will not go on to kill themselves at a later date.

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

(Wikipedia / Seeker / Gizmodo / NBC News / Harvard)