Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (9/27/23)
September 27, 2023 4:35AM CDT
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Wednesday, September 27th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:
- No known hurricane has ever crossed the equator and it’s very rare that they form anywhere near the equator. That’s because of the Coriolis Effect – the force that causes the air to swirl. In the Northern Hemisphere hurricanes spin counterclockwise, and in the Southern Hemisphere they spin in a clockwise direction. So to cross the equator, they’d effectively have to REVERSE direction, which would be wild.
- Louis Armstrong is the oldest person to have a number one single on the Hot 100. He was almost 63 when “Hello, Dolly!” hit number one on the Billboard chart in May of 1964.
- Skype’s name is a shortened version of its original name, “Sky Peer-to-Peer.” The people who created it originally wanted to shorten it to “Skyper,” but that domain name was taken.
- The only state you can type with one row of keys on the keyboard is Alaska.
- Before Jim Jones became a cult leader and eventually led more than 900 people to their deaths, he worked as a door-to-door pet monkey salesman in Indiana.
Be sure to share these 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ with your family, friends & coworkers at some point today!
(IFL Science / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Wordplays / Washington Post)
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