Nerdy Trivia: April 12, 2026

Somewhere, a restaurant is charging $19 for a grilled cheese with brie, caramelized onion jam, and truffle oil on sourdough. The original was two slices of white bread and whatever cheese was in the fridge. The only acceptable upgrade is a pickle spear on the side.

Bette Midler recorded "Delta Dawn," Helen Reddy took it to the top of the Hot 100 in 1973, and the version that outlasted them both belongs to Tanya Tucker, who might've had a hard time relating to a 41-year-old woman wandering around town in a faded flower dress. How old was Tanya Tucker when she recorded her debut single "Delta Dawn"?

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27 years ago TODAY, five white outfits, one airport runway, and a whole lot of boy-band anguish perfected teen pop when "I Want It That Way" was released in 1999!

As the lead single from "Millennium," the song took Backstreet Boys from already-huge to absolutely unavoidable, with Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson handing them a sleek, yearning chorus built to live forever in car radios, school dances, and TRL-era brain chemistry. It went to number one in more than 25 countries, and even though it only peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., it still became the group’s signature song.

Jack Nicholson has played everything from axe-wielding maniacs to grumpy retirees, making basically every director in Hollywood drool over the chance to work with him. The guy's been in movies forever and nabbed three Oscars along the way. Out of all the big-shot directors fighting to work with Jack, who actually got him on camera the most?

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