Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (2/16/22)
February 16, 2022 3:58AM CST
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Wednesday – February 16th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:
- American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman is credited with developing EIGHT of the 14 routine vaccinations used today, including Hepatitis A and B, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), Chickenpox, and Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR). He also discovered that Chlamydia was not a virus as it was previously thought to be.
- Billy Joel was in a two-man rock band called Attila in 1969 and 1970. They only made one album, and it’s on multiple lists of the worst rock albums of all time.
- The 16 largest ships in the world produce as much pollution as 800 million cars combined.
- Cats are the serial killers of the animal world . . . they’re responsible for killing off at least 33 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles.
- The first CD that was made and sold in the U.S. was . . . Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” in 1984.
Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this week!
(Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Daily Mail / Nature / Wikipedia)
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