Nerdy Trivia: April 27, 2026

The Babe Ruth pre-game protocol was 12 hot dogs and eight sodas between games of a doubleheader. Career output was 714 home runs over 22 seasons, most of them hungover and partway through a sandwich. The data speaks for itself. I'm trying it at the next cookout I get invited to.

Nintendo's '80s heroes have simple resumes. Mario eats mushrooms and saves a princess. Link swings a sword and saves a princess. Samus survives a space pirate raid that orphaned her, gets adopted by a race of giant cosmic birds, and ends up with alien DNA spliced into her own. Okay, maybe not every hero. Samus Aran is the main character in which video game series?

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30 years ago TODAY, the bookcase swung open on a tiny boy genius's secret lab when "Dexter's Laboratory" premiered on Cartoon Network in 1996!

Dexter cooks up a plan, Dee Dee twirls in and breaks it. That was the show, week after week. Mandark schemed next door, the parents floated through the house with no clue what was happening downstairs, and Genndy Tartakovsky's sharp, angular style gave Cartoon Network a whole new look. The series ran for four seasons and picked up multiple Emmy nominations along the way.

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