Nerdy Trivia: May 29, 2026

The easy way to tell an alligator from a crocodile is the snout. The alligator has a wide, rounded U shape, and the croc has a narrow V. And when an alligator shuts its mouth, the teeth tuck away while a crocodile leaves a bottom tooth poking out. Of course, by the time you're close enough to check the dental work, the answer stops being useful.

I have lost whole nights to fan-made "who would win?" threads, and few names blow one up faster than Dr. Manhattan. The glowing blue man from "Watchmen" got such a big power-up in the "Doomsday Clock" run that he wound up rewriting DC's entire multiverse from the inside. Before he was editing reality itself, though, he was written as a much simpler (but still overpowered) character. Who wrote the original "Watchmen" comic series?

42 years ago TODAY, a Volkswagen Beetle and a Walther P38 squared off on a newsstand when "The Transformers" #1 hit shelves in 1984!

Marvel only signed on for a four-issue miniseries to sell some Hasbro toys, and the brawl between the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons turned out to be a bigger deal than anyone planned. Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Megatron showed up fully formed, and the robots-in-disguise hook gave the whole thing a charge the action figures couldn't. The mini sold well enough that Marvel kept it going for 80 issues through 1991, and that throwaway tie-in became the backbone of a franchise still rolling out today.

Which legendary director voiced Unicron in "The Transformers: The Movie"?

Depending on what movie I'm watching, there are times I wish they would have stayed silent forever. But alas, there's no stopping technological progress, especially when it comes to the movies. Ever since the first Kinetoscope parlor opened in 1894, it's been nothing but technological breakthroughs.

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