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 Friday, December 15th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

Since the construction of the Oval Office in 1909, a total of six different desks have been used by 20 presidents. EIGHT presidents used the “Resolute Desk” . . . SIX used the “Theodore Roosevelt Desk” . . . TWO used the “Hoover Desk” . . . TWO used the “Wilson Desk” . . . ONE used the “C&O Desk” . . . and ONE used the “Johnson Desk.” The “Resolute Desk” is in the Oval Office now. John F. Kennedy first sat at it . . . followed by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
The dog who played Spuds MacKenzie in those Bud Light commercials in the ’80s was really a FEMALE. And her real name was Honey Tree Evil Eye.
An inventor in Illinois and an inventor in Washington simultaneously invented the garage door opener in 1931, and neither of them knew about the other.
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis met on MySpace in 2006.
There are only three crimes mentioned in the Constitution: Treason, piracy and counterfeiting.