Nerdy Trivia: May 13, 2026

Apple pie is actually English. The earliest printed recipe is in a 14th-century cookbook called "The Forme of Cury." We just won enough wars and made enough commercials about it that the pie quietly switched citizenships sometime between Norman Rockwell and World War II.

Before they founded Apple, Steve Wozniak was designing calculators at HP while Steve Jobs was a $5-an-hour technician at an arcade-game company. When Jobs's bosses handed him a prototype assignment with a bonus attached, he called Wozniak with a handshake to split the take down the middle. Which company did Jobs and Woz build a prototype for?

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40 years ago TODAY, a blood-spattered smiley button hit the gutter when "Watchmen" #1 went on sale in 1986!

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons opened with the murder of Edward Blake, the Comedian, and Rorschach prowling rainy Manhattan. It was an alternate 1985 where Nixon was still in office, and costumed vigilantes had been outlawed. The first issue planted Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Nite Owl, and Silk Spectre in the margins before the 12-issue maxi-series won the 1988 Hugo and landed on Time's 100 Best Novels list.

Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" hit number one in 1973 with a clavinet riff that made every rock station suddenly take notice. The funky groove was Wonder's most upbeat yet and proved he could cross over into any genre he wanted, but the song was supposed to be someone else's big moment. Who did Stevie Wonder originally write "Superstition" for?

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