Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (12/16/21)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Thursday – December 16th, 2021. Let’s learn something together:

1. The North Pole doesn’t have any landmasses. It’s only ice floating on water.
2. Cows CAN walk down stairs, but it’s very difficult for them, and they’ll only do it if they have to.
3. The words “vanilla” and “vagina” come from the same Latin root word.  It’s because the shape of vanilla when it grows.
4. Pamela Anderson was the first baby born in Canada on July 1st, 1967 – Canada’s 100th anniversary, so she got media coverage as the country’s “Centennial Baby.”
5. Most of the movie “Gangs of New York” was filmed in Italy on sets designed to look like New York in the 19th century.

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

(NOAA / Britannica / Saturday Evening Post / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)