Nerdy Trivia: September 4, 2025

Arctic terns fly from Arctic to Antarctic every year, covering roughly 44,000 miles in what amounts to chasing summer around the globe for their entire lives. The fact that a tiny bird can navigate across oceans using magnetic fields and star patterns while most of us need GPS to find the grocery store really makes me question who the smartest animal really is.

Bette Midler spent the 1980s starring in movies like "Ruthless People" and "Beaches," making audiences laugh, cry, and sing along the way. But the Divine Miss M was ready to get back into the studio to release new music, and the result became her biggest solo commercial triumph. Which album holds the title of Bette Midler's best-selling studio album?

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36 years ago TODAY, Nintendo allowed the release of a fever dream called "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" It starred retired WWF wrestler Lou Albano, actor Danny Wells, ran for 65 episodes, and had an intro song called the "Plumber Rap." If you were wondering, no, Nintendo did not really provide the writers with anything beyond character designs.

If there’s one animal you can’t miss during a visit to the zoo, it’s always the flamingos. In part because you can usually smell their habitat coming up well before you actually see it.

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