Nerdy Trivia: November 9, 2025

Peter Piper probably picked precisely zero pickled peppers because peppers get pickled post-picking, which technically torpedoes the entire tale. Tongue twisters thrive through tricky, tangled terminology that ties tongues tighter than terrible teenagers texting. The toughest twisters trigger total tongue paralysis, particularly when persistently practiced properly, promptly producing pathetic pronunciation problems.

Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves" let viewers watch Lieutenant John Dunbar as he formed one of cinema's most memorable human-animal friendships. Alone at a fort, he's visited every day by a wolf that he eventually names, and their interactions are how Dunbar gets his own name from the Sioux tribe. What is the wolf named in "Dances with Wolves"?

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41 years ago TODAY, horror started singing when “A Nightmare on Elm Street” hit theaters in 1984! Wes Craven’s dream-killer setup gave us Freddy Krueger, and his famous “one, two, Freddy’s coming for you” jingle. It kicked off a whole slasher franchise, TV spinoff, crossovers, the works, but the original is still the one that made falling asleep the worst idea. It even launched Johnny Depp’s film career in the most '80s way possible.

John Wayne didn’t only star in Westerns, but there is no other actor more prominently associated with the genre. John Wayne is the American frontier, as far as most people are concerned.

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