Nerdy Trivia: January 17, 2026

That one-eyed sailor convinced an entire generation of kids that spinach tasted good, which might be the greatest con job in cartoon history. Spinach sales actually jumped by 33% during the character's peak popularity, proving that animated forearms are surprisingly effective advertising.

What year did Popeye the Sailor debut?

Bob Dylan wrote the soundtrack to an entire generation, pushed The Beatles toward more introspective songwriting, and influenced every singer-songwriter who came after him. Critics treated him like a genius from day one. The Billboard album chart took a little longer to agree. How many Bob Dylan albums have actually reached #1 on the Billboard 200?

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34 years ago TODAY, a race car crash turned into a body-snatching time-travel nightmare when "Freejack" opened in theaters in 1992!

No, this wasn't a fever dream, Mick Jagger really hunted Emilio Estevez's Alex Furlong, a Formula One driver yanked out of a fiery 1991 wreck and dropped into a grimy 2009 where the ultra-rich hire mercenaries to steal fresh bodies from the past. Anthony Hopkins loomed over a creepy tech empire, and its city looked like someone smashed together "Blade Runner" and a music video backlot.

Game shows in the 1970s were absolutely everywhere, and producers were constantly trying to find the next big hit that would get families gathering around their TV sets every weeknight. When Mark Goodson and Bill Todman created "Family Feud" in 1976, they needed someone who could handle the chaos of getting two families to guess the most popular survey answers while keeping the energy high and the banter flowing. Who was the original host of "Family Feud"?

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