Nerdy Trivia: May 29, 2025

Rainforest Cafe's animatronic alligators had one job – look vaguely menacing while kids tried to eat chicken nuggets and flip pennies into their mouths – and they nailed it. Real alligators have been perfecting that same death stare for about 200 million years. Turns out the secret to longevity is learning to float motionless for hours, eating anything that gets too close.

Sonny Crockett lived the kind of life in "Miami Vice" that made regular cops wonder if they'd picked the wrong profession. The guy cruised around Miami in supercars, wore Armani suits without ties, and somehow managed to look cool while sporting a perpetual five o'clock shadow. His houseboat was a floating bachelor pad complete with all the excessive 1980s trappings you'd expect from a vice detective who spent his days infiltrating drug cartels. But even by Miami standards, Crockett's pet alligator raised a few eyebrows. What did the stylish detective name his toothy housemate?

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In the annals of video game history, you have pixels, bits, skill, resilience, and lots of jumping. Mostly jumping, actually. And really, that's still the case. In fact, one popular old-school gaming character was once upon a time simply referred to as "Jumpman." Who was it?

• Anthony Geary (1947)
• Rebbie Jackson (1950)
• Danny Elfman (1953)
• LaToya Jackson (1956)
• Annette Bening (1958)
• Rupert Everett (1959)
• Adrian Paul (1959)
• Melissa Etheridge (1961)
• Lisa Whelchel (1963)
• Noel Gallagher (1967)
• Laverne Cox (1972)
• Aaron McGruder (1974)
• Melanie Brown (1975)