Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (6/7/24)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Friday, June 7th, 2024. Let’s learn something together:

1. The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone, meaning the highest point on Earth was once ocean seafloor, roughly 470 million years ago.
2. There were sheep in Central Park in New York until 1934, when the city had them moved so people wouldn’t EAT them during the Great Depression.
3. The press briefing room in the White House used to be an indoor swimming pool.  It was installed in 1933, but Nixon had it converted to the press room in 1970.
4. The movie “Scream” was originally going to be called “Scary Movie” which wound up being the name of the famous horror movie parody series.
5. In the ’60s, McDonald’s considered changing their logo from the Golden Arches to something else.  But they got talked out of it by a design consultant who said the arches were great because of a, quote, “Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts.”

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

(IFL Science / Ephemeral NY / White House History / Wikipedia / BBC / Snopes)