Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (10/11/21)
October 11, 2021 4:01AM CDT
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts for your Monday – October 11th, 2021. Let’s learn something together:
- There are approximately 10.3 million barrels of bourbon currently aging in the state of Kentucky. That’s more than TWICE the population of Kentucky, which is about 4.5 million.
- The Cap’n Crunch character was created by a guy named Allan Burns. He also worked on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”, and co-created “The Munsters” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. He passed away in January at 85.
- The word “phony” comes from “telephone” since early phones had such bad audio quality, it made people’s voices sound fake.
- Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population lives within 100 miles of one of the country’s borders.
- 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this week!
(Kentucky Bourbon / Cartoon Brew / Popular Mechanics / ACLU / CBC)
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