Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (1/30/24)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ – on this Tuesday, January 30th, 2024. Let’s learn something together:

1. Astronomers say the Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
2. Technically Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit.  The closest was “Dancing in the Dark” at #2 in 1984.  But a song he WROTE was #1.  Manfred Mann hit #1 in 1977 with a cover of “Blinded by the Light”.
3. The Coen Brothers based the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” on “The Odyssey” but neither of them ever read it.  They just knew the basic plot and the highlights from all the references in pop culture.
4. The famous pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock won a gold medal in rowing at the 1924 Olympics.
5. The point in North America that’s the furthest from any ocean is in southwest South Dakota.  It’s 1,024 miles from the nearest coastline.

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

(The Guardian / Clash Music / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Treehugger)