Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (2/18/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Friday – February 18th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

1. Religious websites are three times more likely to spread computer viruses than porn sites.
2. The forward pass wasn’t added to American football until 1905, 36 years AFTER the sport started. And it came with big penalties: A dropped pass would cost a team 15 yards, and a pass that didn’t touch anyone was a turnover.
3. The first Google “doodle” logo was for the Burning Man festival in 1998 because both of the founders were going so they thought it’d be a funny way to let people know they were “out of office.”
4. One of the original names that Twitter’s founders considered for their product was FriendStalker.
5. The Nazis were the first people in modern history to start an anti-tobacco smoking movement.

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

(PC World / Smithsonian / Google / Globe and Mail / Wikipedia)