Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ – (9/20/22)

1. In 2006, Creed singer Scott Stapp attempted suicide by jumping off a hotel balcony, only to be rescued two hours later by rapper T.I.
2. Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, and Sarah Michelle Gellar all auditioned for the lead part in “Clueless” before it went to Alicia Silverstone.
3. Almost one out of three of Bob Dylan’s songs make a reference to the weather. No other artist comes close to that many. The Beatles are second, at 16%.
4. More than half of the London Underground stations are actually above ground.
5. There have been 44 live-action Hollywood movies adapted from video games, starting with “Super Mario Bros.” in 1993. And it took 34 movies and 25 YEARS for one to do better than 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. The first was “Tomb Raider” in 2018. It has a 52%. There have been 10 movies since, and six are better than 50%.

(MTV / New York Post / Daily Mail / Wikipedia / Wikipedia)