Nerdy Trivia: March 28, 2026

Sitting in 104-degree water is the closest most of us will get to understanding what a lobster goes through, except you get to climb out whenever you want and nobody's waiting with drawn butter (I hope). What I don't get is how someone can go from that to a cold plunge. They call it contrast therapy, but it looks more like a cry for help.

Robert Plant got into a car accident in 1975, and Led Zeppelin still knocked out "Presence" in 18 days with him singing from a wheelchair. Of course it hit number one because that's the kind of run you'd expect from a group that many consider not just an all-time great rock band, but THE all-time greatest. How many of their studio albums reached number one on the Billboard 200?

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27 years ago TODAY, a pizza delivery guy got cryogenically punted into the future when "Futurama" premiered on Fox in 1999!

Matt Groening and David X. Cohen took Fry, Leela, Bender, and the Planet Express crew and built a sci-fi sitcom that could bounce from Nixon’s head in a jar to real emotional damage without losing the joke. What started in 1999 refused to stay dead, surviving cancellation, four direct-to-DVD movies, a Comedy Central run, and Hulu’s revival in 2023.

What year does Fry wake up?

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?

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