Nerdy Trivia: February 18, 2026

Pluto got kicked out of the planet club after 76 years because someone changed the rules, and people took it personally. How much time did we all spend learning "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas"?

Before the white suit and disco moves, and before he was singing about Greased Lightning, John Travolta was just playing a swaggering high schooler on TV. The show wasn't built around him, but audiences couldn't stop watching and he became the breakout star. What TV show launched John Travolta's career?

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60 years ago TODAY, a prison break turned a Texas town into a pressure cooker when “The Chase” hit theaters in 1966!

Directed by Arthur Penn, it’s a sweaty slice of ’60s Hollywood where Marlon Brando’s Sheriff Calder is stuck between a jailed escapee, small-town corruption, and a vigilante mob. Then you've got Jane Fonda and Robert Redford caught in the middle of the mess and just the tip of this star-studded lineup. It only did okay at the box office, but it's a preview of the darker, more abrasive Hollywood dramas that were just around the corner.

John Hughes is one of the best, most-respected, and most-successful movie directors out there. If Bill Paxton transforming into a disgusting, flatulent blob in Weird Science doesn't prove so, I don't know what else to tell you.

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