Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (4/24/24)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Wednesday, April 24th, 2024. Let’s learn something together:

1. There was a tradition in ancient Greek theater that character deaths almost never happened on stage.  No matter how important the characters were, deaths almost always occurred off-stage, and were announced by a messenger with the body sometimes being shown later.
2. The last time a third-party candidate got any electoral votes was in 1968.  George Wallace ran on a platform promoting segregation, and won five states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
3. There’s a city called Rome on every continent besides Antarctica.  There are a few in the United States.  There’s also one in Ecuador, Australia, Indonesia, Lesotho, and of course Italy.
4. “Bohemian Rhapsody” started the music video trend.  Queen made a promotional video for the song in 1975, and it was such a hit that record companies started making videos for all hit songs.
5. The first missing child on a milk carton was 12-year-old John Gosch from West Des Moines, Iowa.  He went missing in 1982, he was on a milk carton in 1984 and sadly, he’s never been found.  He would be 54 today.

Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!

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