Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’

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 Wednesday – January 11th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

Bob Dylan wrote 17 known drafts of his 1983 song “Jokerman“ before deciding on the final version.
Kenny Rogers started his professional music career playing upright bass in a jazz trio in the 1960s.
The color fuchsia is named after a German botanist from the 1500s named Leonhart Fuchs. (Pronounced Fyooks, like “dukes”.) He discovered a flower that was a pink-magenta color and called it a fuchsia, so that became the name of the color as well.
Mirrors are actually light green. They’re created using a type of green glass with a silver backing . . . but you can’t see the green, because you’re just seeing a reflection.
The original “Blade Runner” movie was set in 2019.