Nerdy Trivia: May 23, 2026

We have to talk about Turtlemania. For like four years, we all became obsessed with a group of turtles named after Renaissance painters, buying everything from action figures to tickets for an arena tour. Picking your favorite turtle was the first real personality test we ever took.

For 42 years the Billboard 200's debut-at-number-one club only had four members, and they were all men. Who was the woman to have an album debut at number one?

51 years ago TODAY, Elton John turned his hungry early years into a song-by-song autobiography when "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" was released in 1975!

The album traces his pre-fame London grind in the exact order it happened, and it landed hard enough to become the first record in history to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" anchors the emotional core, a piano-driven recounting of the night Long John Baldry talked him out of marrying a woman he didn't love.

I’ve been to some shady hotels in my time, but none that made me so fearful for my life that I wrote one of the most iconic horror novels of all time. 

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