Nerdy Trivia: May 31, 2025

Parrots love embarrassing their owners. When you want to show off their vocabulary to guests, they're completely silent. Then when you're having a serious conversation at the dinner table, they think it's the perfect time to repeat that thing you said when you stubbed your toe. Not a very cool thing to do for a species that tripled its lifespan when it got domesticated. But, yes, I'll still give Polly a cracker.

Clint Eastwood had this weird talent for making the most ridiculous threats sound genuinely terrifying. Picture a guy eternally in his 50s squinting at criminals and basically daring them to give him an excuse to shoot, and somehow it worked every single time. One particular line got so famous that Ronald Reagan started using it in actual presidential speeches. Which movie gave us "Go ahead, make my day"?

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One of "Titanic's" most memorable characters almost had a very different accent on screen. Before Kathy Bates charmed audiences as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown," another powerhouse performer was set to bring this larger-than-life survivor to life. Which star nearly stepped into those first-class shoes?

• Clint Eastwood (1930)
• Sharon Gless (1943)
• Gregory Harrison (1950)
• Kyle Secor (1957)
• Roma Maffia (1958)
• Chris Elliott (1960)
• Lea Thompson (1961)
• Corey Hart (1962)
• DMC (1964)
• Brooke Shields (1965)
• Colin Farrell (1976)
• Eric Christian Olsen (1977)