Nerdy Trivia: December 28, 2025

Forrest Gump's mom said life is like a box of chocolates, but she must've never gotten one of those boxes with diagrams showing exactly what you're gonna get. Maybe the line should've ended with, "you're gonna have to bite a lot of cream-filled ones while hunting for the caramel."

Do you remember E.T.'s favorite candy?

The 1980s burger wars were brutal. Fast-food chains kept one-upping each other with bigger patties, special sauces, and increasingly elaborate gimmicks. Somewhere in the middle of all that competition, a dual-compartment container hit the market with a promise to keep the hot ingredients separate from the cold ones until you were ready to eat. Which '80s fast-food burger had the slogan "Keep the hot side hot, and the cool side cool"?

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38 years ago TODAY, pizza became a Saturday-morning breakfast food when "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" premiered in 1987!

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s indie comic finally blasted into cartoon mode with Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael bickering like brothers while Splinter's origin story got a major rewrite. The show ran for 10 seasons and helped launch Turtlemania into a licensing powerhouse across toys, movies, clothing, and anything else you can put a ninja-fighting turtle's face on.

What were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles renamed in the UK?

It's hard to believe, but before there was Smart Hulk the original big green guy had a bit of a stuttered start on his way to pop-culture stardom. The original series didn't last long, but after Stan Lee and Jack Kirby found out a college had named their mascot after him, they realized they had something special with Hulk.

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