Nerdy Trivia: December 8, 2025

This holiday season's hottest dessert is Ina Garten's brownie pudding. It's racked up millions of views across social media because the idea of eating hot, gooey brownie batter without the risk of salmonella sounds fabulous (although it looks so good raw, I'd still risk it).

Hip-hop in the mid-1980s was still fighting for respect as a serious musical genre, and for female rappers the hill was even steeper. Male rappers dominated the scene, and the industry thought rap was just a passing fad that would burn out any day. One girl group grabbed the microphone and proved rap had staying power, and women deserved some of the spotlight. Which girl group had the first gold rap album?

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49 years ago TODAY, we all checked into a very strange SoCal dream when the Eagles released their album "Hotel California" in 1976!

The Eagles’ fifth studio album pushed them from country-rock into darker, glossier territory, with Joe Walsh joining the band and songs like the title epic, "New Kid in Town," and "Life in the Fast Lane" circling around fame, excess, and burnout behind that Beverly Hills Hotel cover. It quickly hit number one on the Billboard 200, spun off two number-one singles, and grew into one of the best-selling and most picked-apart rock albums of all time. Do you remember which member has been in the band the longest?

Check out more celeb birthdays in today's birthday post!