Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (11/16/22)

Here are Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets of Knowledge for your Noggin’ on this Wednesday – November 16th, 2022. Let’s learn something together:

1. There are 38,864 golf courses in the world.  The U.S. has the most, with around 17,000.  And Japan has the second-most, with more than 3,000.
2. Shrapnel is named after Henry Shrapnel, a major general in the British Army.  In the late 1700s he invented an exploding shell with lead pellets inside.
3. Only one president has died from cancer:  Ulysses S. Grant had throat cancer.
4. Before he got famous, Rob Zombie worked as a production assistant on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”.
5. The first three movies released on VHS in America were “The Sound of Music”, “Patton”, and “MASH”.  The first movie released on DVD was “Twister”.  The first batch of Blu-rays included “50 First Dates” and “Hitch”.

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

(Golf Monthly / Gizmodo / Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Primer Magazine / Wikipedia)