Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (12/30/22)
December 30, 2022 4:28AM CST
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Friday – December 30th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:
- Turkey vultures use defensive VOMIT to get rid of any disturbing animal. They can propel their puke up to 10 feet.
- “National Geographic” published a picture of its first nude African woman in 1896 and it led to a huge spike in subscribers.
- In George Lucas’s early drafts of “The Empire Strikes Back”, Yoda was named Buffy.
- The words “idiot,” “imbecile,” and “moron” were once actually assigned to specific IQ ranges. An idiot had an IQ under 20 . . . an imbecile had one between 21 and 50 . . . and a moron had one 51 to 70.
- Almost all of the dinosaurs featured in “Jurassic Park” lived in the Cretaceous period, not the Jurassic period.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(Nature Mapping Foundation / Google Books / Io9 / Wikipedia / The Guardian)
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