Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (9/21/23)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Thursday, September 21st, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

1. Today, the 21st of September, is featured in the Earth Wind & Fire hit “September“.  So WHY was the 21st of September the lyric?  Songwriter Maurice White claimed he just chose the 21st because it sounded good when sung, but his wife once said that that September 21st was the due date of their son, Kahbran.
2. The most common noun in the English language is “time.”  The runners-up are “person,” “year,” “way,” and “day.”
3. There were Olympic medals for architecture from 1912 to 1948.
4. Potatoes were illegal in France from 1748 to 1772 because the government thought they were poisonous.
5. Gonorrhea is the strongest creature alive.  It can pull 100,000 times its body weight.

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

(Wikipedia / Reader’s Digest / Wikipedia / Perry Ponders / New Scientist)