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, June 28th, 2023. Let’s learn something together:

“Someone Like You” by Adele came out in 2011, and it became the first strictly voice-and-piano ballad to EVER top the Billboard Hot 100.
The movie “Titanic” cost more to make than the actual boat. The Titanic cost $7.5 million in 1912, which is around $196 million in today’s dollars. The budget for the movie was $200 million.
Human beings only started eating chickens about 2,200 years ago. Before that, chickens were mostly used for other things . . . like cockfighting and ritual sacrifice.
The federal government owns about 28% of the land in the United States . . .640 million acres of the 2.27 billion acres. Most of that is in the west and Alaska.
The first song ever heard on the Moon was Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”. Buzz Aldrin played it on a portable cassette player after he stepped onto the Moon in 1969.