Nerdy Trivia: October 23, 2025

Talk shows have managed to fill every hour of the day with someone ready to chat, laugh, and occasionally give away ridiculous prizes to audience members who scream loud enough. The genre peaked when Oprah started handing out cars like party favors, creating a moment so iconic that people still reference it decades later. Morning hosts wake up at 3 AM to be perky for the rest of us, while late night hosts get to sleep in and roast the day's events. Which daytime talk show host once had their nose broken during a taping?

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a four-minute history lesson disguised as a pop song, cramming 40 years of American chaos into one incredibly catchy tune. He name-drops several commanders-in-chief along the way, but when you're trying to fit four decades of history into a single song, somebody's getting left out. Which of these U.S. Presidents who served during Joel's timeline failed to make the cut?

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29 years ago TODAY, two legendary crews joined forces when Marvel released "Star Trek/X-Men #1" as part of its Paramount Comics imprint in 1996! The crossover comic united Captain Kirk and the original Enterprise crew with the X-Men as they faced Proteus (possessing Gary Mitchell) and Deathbird with her Shi'ar forces. The one-shot brought together Kirk, Cyclops, Wolverine and Spock, because space-age phasers and eye-beam lasers are a perfect combo.

It’s difficult to imagine a world without Weird Al in it. But alas, there was a time when he wasn’t the most-famous parody musician in the world.

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