Nerdy Trivia: May 8, 2025

The dryer's sock-stealing operation must be getting desperate if they're pushing holidays to help their cause. That mysterious lint portal has enough single socks to outfit every foot from here to Jupiter by now. And while some folks are celebrating toe freedom today (nope, feet are gross), I'll stick to wondering where all those missing pairs really end up.

When "Dreamgirls" made its Broadway debut in 1981 it gave us one of the greatest musical theater moments ever. Night after night, audiences alternated between clapping and crying during "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." If you somehow forgot, it's the incredible song that brings the house down at the end of Act One. Who was the first person to absolutely own that stage as Effie?

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Before being named after its inventor, Ernő Rubik, the Rubik’s Cube was to be called the Magic Cube. Which is kind of appropriate, because the only people who can solve those things are damn magicians.

• David Attenborough (1926)
• Philip Bailey (1951)
• Alex Van Halen (1953)
• David Keith (1954)
• Bill Cowher (1957)
• Anthony Field (1963)
• Melissa Gilbert (1964)
• Darren Hayes (1972)
• Enrique Iglesias (1975)
• Matt Davis (1978)