Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (8/11/23)
August 11, 2023 4:37AM CDT
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Friday, August 11th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:
- Author J.M. Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and wearing his clothes. His mother treated him as if he was his dead brother. He later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: “Peter Pan”.
- Five people have won a presidential election even though they lost the popular vote: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
- The pie chart, bar chart, and line graph were all invented by an engineer named William Playfair from Scotland in the late 1700s.
- There are about 20 quintillion animals total living on Earth. That’s 20 BILLION BILLION. And about half are insects.
- The movie “Dirty Harry” was originally going to be called “Dead Right”, and Frank Sinatra was going to be the star instead of Clint Eastwood.
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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