Nerdy Trivia: July 28, 2025

Finding out milk chocolate wasn't chocolate's default taste was sort of like finding out the tooth fairy wasn't real. And the first (and only) time I bit into baker's chocolate I thought I was eating poison. I know the Swiss are famous for their watches and army knives, but adding milk powder to chocolate was their greatest gift to civilization.

Tom Hanks has played plenty of everyman characters throughout his career, but Detective Scott Turner in 1989's "Turner & Hooch" might be his most uptight. This guy's idea of a wild Friday night involves color-coding his sock drawer, so when he inherits a massive, slobbering canine partner from a murder victim, his pristine world gets turned completely upside down. What dog breed is Hooch from "Turner & Hooch"?

America had already beaten the Soviets to the moon, but NASA wasn't ready to pack up and call it a day. The agency had bigger dreams than just quick trips to space and back. The Soviets already had their Salyut stations floating around up there, so it was time for the U.S. to stake its own claim in the cosmic real estate market. What was the name of America's first space station?

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Flying monkeys and emerald cities might be everywhere these days, with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo lighting up screens as Glinda and Elphaba. While audiences worldwide know the story of the misunderstood green witch through showstopping musical numbers, there's a darker novel that first dared to ask: what if the Wicked Witch of the West was actually the hero of Oz? When did "Wicked" first land in bookstores?

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