Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (12/2/22)
December 2, 2022 4:29AM CST
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Friday – December 2nd, 2022. Let’s learn something together:
- Last year, just 5% of the plastic waste consumed in the U.S. was recycled back into plastic. The remainder was sent to landfills around the country. Rates for glass were a little better, at 31% . . . and 50% of cans were recycled. But nothing can match cardboard’s recyclability, which hovers annually between 90% and 91%.
- The reason so many Asian countries have names that end in “stan” is because it’s an ancient Persian word for “homeland” or “country.”
- Lil Wayne was a straight-A student.
- James Doohan, who played Scotty on “Star Trek”, fought in World War Two with the Canadian military and he was shot six times on D-Day in Normandy.
- The Caesar salad comes from Tijuana, Mexico. It was created by an Italian immigrant named Caesar Cardini at a restaurant he owned there.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(NYT Magazine / World Atlas / Interview Magazine / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)
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