Nerdy Trivia: May 1, 2026

In 1977 NASA bolted a gold-plated record to the side of Voyager 1 and shot it into the void with no return address. The disc carries greetings in 55 languages, whale songs, Bach, Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," and the sound of a kiss, packaged with a turntable cartridge and pictogram instructions for whichever alien eventually pulls it out of the cosmic dust.

What was the first vegetable grown in space?

"G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" was a cartoon airing between toy commercials, but it capped each episode with a quick safety lesson. A Joe rescued a kid from a downed power line, then turned to the camera for the same five-word coda. Which phrase capped each "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" PSA?

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29 years ago TODAY, a beeping egg started demanding to be fed in the middle of math class when Tamagotchi launched in North America in 1997!

The pitch was simple. Hatch a digital pet on a keychain, then keep it alive by feeding it, cleaning up after it, and playing with it through three little buttons on the shell. Skip a feeding for too long, and you'd come back to a tiny grave on the screen, which is why kids smuggled them into class and why teachers started confiscating them by the dozen. Bandai sold more than 82 million of them worldwide.

Every sci-fi show eventually needs some kind of robotic companion. It’s basically the law. The original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was a mix of various alien races, sure, but we didn’t get a real synthetic crewmate until “The Next Generation” in 1987. This android has become a fan favorite, but what name did he go by?

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