Nerdy Trivia: September 23, 2025

Professional bakers have already made three dozen croissants before most people have had their first cup of coffee. While you're just adding what feels right to your batter, they're precisely measuring ingredients so that their cake is a fluffy cloud and not a dense brick.

When VHS ruled home entertainment in the '80s and '90s, some movies became instant must-haves while others gathered dust on video store shelves. Individual blockbusters grabbed headlines for massive sales, but the real money was in getting families to buy direct-to-home sequels. Parents would purchase the original, then eagerly snatch up each sequel as soon as it hit stores, creating a franchise goldmine that completely bypassed theaters. Which film series became the VHS sales champion?

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31 years ago TODAY, we got one of the greatest comeback stories in cinema history when "The Shawshank Redemption" was released in 1994! Originally a box-office failure, the film's critical acclaim (including seven Academy Award nominations) helped power a re-release and VHS rental spree that put it squarely in the hearts of millions of movie-goers. In 2006, Empire magazine readers voted it the greatest film of all time, and it's the highest-rated movie on IMDB.

TV is full of lies. If the fact that House Hunters isn't real didn't convince you, maybe this will — the "random fan" that gets pulled up on stage in Bruce Springsteen's iconic 1984 hit, "Dancing in the Dark," is actually a plant.

Check out more celeb birthdays in today's birthday post!