Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (8/1/22)
August 1, 2022 4:14AM CDT
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Monday – August 1st, 2022. Let’s learn something together:
- Chuck Norris was a pallbearer at Bruce Lee’s funeral.
- Cremation is more popular in Nevada than any other state, where approximately three out of four bodies are cremated. It’s least popular in Mississippi, where only 19% are cremated.
- The Ouija board got its name when the people who created it in 1890 ASKED it what it should be called, and it guided them to O-U-I-J-A.
- Orlando International Airport’s abbreviation is MCO because it used to be McCoy Air Force Base. It changed over to a commercial airport in 1975.
- James Garfield is the only U.S. president who’s ever proven a math theorem. Before he got into politics, he wanted to be a math professor, and discovered a new way to prove the Pythagorean Theorem back in 1876.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(Wikipedia / Business Insider / Smithsonian Magazine / Wikipedia / Io9)
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