Nerdy Trivia: April 26, 2026

There was a perfect predator on board the Nostromo. It was silent, territorial, able to slip through the vents, and hissed at anything that moved. And then there was the alien. Jonesy, the orange tabby, was the only one besides Ripley to make it off the ship alive.

Five years on a soap is enough time to either become a daytime lifer or become very ready to quit. Richard Dean Anderson chose the latter in 1981, quitting a top-rated daytime drama to chase a career he didn't have yet. A few years later, he became TV's most resourceful action star. Which daytime soap did Richard Dean Anderson walk away from before "MacGyver"?

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27 years ago TODAY, four kids on a couch learned that friendship has limits when Super Smash Bros. launched in North America in 1999!

Masahiro Sakurai's Nintendo all-star brawler ditched health bars for damage percentages and ring-outs, turning every match into a sweaty scramble to knock your friends off a floating platform. The original 12 fighters beat each other senseless with Home-Run Bats and Beam Swords across stages pulled from Hyrule, Saffron City, and Dream Land. It moved over 5 million copies on the N64 and kicked off a franchise where Ultimate alone has cleared 35 million.

Man, it would be so cool to be Dr. Indiana Jones. The dude has a tenured job, all the girls love him, and he gets to travel the world having adventures — plus, the whip makes for an amazing party trick.

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