Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (8/29/23)
August 29, 2023 4:42AM CDT
Big Dave holding up a hand in the KMAD studio. Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Tuesday, August 29th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:
- eBay originally launched in 1995 as a site called AuctionWeb. “eBay” was short for Echo Bay Technology Group. eBay was the parent company of four sites: AuctionWeb . . . a travel site . . . a personal shipper site . . . and a site about the Ebola virus. The others didn’t get any traction, and the media kept referring to AuctionWeb as eBay . . . so the company made the name change official in 1997.
- The submarine was invented during the Civil War by an engineer for the Confederacy named Horace Hunley. And he died in 1863 when he was testing one and it SANK.
- The “defrost” setting on your microwave doesn’t use a different wattage or type of energy. It just alternates between 100% power and 0% power.
- Long Island, New York is legally considered a peninsula, not an island.
- The color mauve was discovered by accident. A chemist saw a purplish-magenta color when he was trying to make a medicine to treat malaria in 1856, and realized it would be a great dye.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(CNBC / Wikipedia / Thrillist / Mental Floss / Wikipedia)
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