Good evening. Some rough news, brother: Hulk Hogan, the shirt-shredding WWE legend with massive pythons💪, died earlier today at the age of 71.

Police and fire department personnel were called to Hogan’s home in Clearwater, Florida, where he was treated for cardiac arrest, the police said in a “news alert” post on Facebook. Hogan—real name Terry Gene Bollea—was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Read some tributes to the wrestling legend here.

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Each of the following events happened on July 24. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Brigham Young and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah, sans coffee and alcohol.
• B) American history scholar Hiram Bingham, led by a local resident, stumbles across the ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that's since become one of the world’s top tourist destinations.
• C) Elon Musk rebrands social media site Twitter as X after merging Twitter with his company X Holdings.
• D) Mata Hari, a Dutch-born dancer and courtesan whose name eventually becomes the term for a seductive female spy, goes on trial in France accused of spying for Germany. She’s subsequently found guilty and shot by firing squad.
• E) Saving Private Ryan, a WWII drama starring Tom Hanks, is released in the US. It becomes a critical and commercial success, earning five Academy Awards, including best director for Steven Spielberg—and also kicks off a string of Matt Damon on-screen rescues.

Hint: Spies = usually in the middle of everything

• A) Credit utilization
• B) Payment history
• C) Length of credit history

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Answer: B, payment history.

…and a bit of wanderlust would go a long way to help solve the first clue of our new Conjoiner sequence.

Reminder: Conjoiner is an original word game we developed, where each answer to a crossword-style clue gives indications as to the next. In other words: the answers are more connected than the best Red Rover team in history (🤝).

The first clue of today’s sequence: “Location of unusual route or destination not on the worn road”...

Note: A (potentially important) clue for today’s Conjoiner can be found at the bottom of our AM send. Just search “🍩 Congress + college sports“ in your inbox.

Mini

Got game? We’ll find out after you take a swing at today’s mini crossword.

• Play today’s puzzle here.

Sudoku

Let’s get down to business—it’s time to go over the numbers.

• Play today's Sudoku here.

It was a big week for South Park, the long-running hit show about cartoon children in Colorado.

• First: South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on Monday reached a five-year, $1.5 billion global streaming deal with Paramount for the rights to stream the animated series, ending a contentious negotiation that tangentially involved the White House.
• Then: On Wednesday, the show dropped its opening episode of Season 27, a White House and Trump-centric affair you’ve probably seen a thousand clips of on TikTok already.

More fireworks are probably coming soon: Parker and Stone also signed-on to make 50 new episodes as part of the Paramount deal.

Zoom out: The show whose authoritah you need to respect is just one of several long-running animated series still churning out content. Others include Futurama and The Simpsons. Though oldies-but-goodies like Looney Tunes also exist, setting up a tough question…

Which cartoon is the GOAT?

Compete in the Best Cartoon/Animated Show challenge and cast your vote for the GOAT.

A, B, D, E, C

• A) 1847: Brigham Young and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• B) 1911: American history scholar Hiram Bingham, led by a local resident, stumbles across the ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that's since become one of the world’s top tourist destinations.
• D) 1917: Mata Hari, a Dutch-born dancer and courtesan whose name eventually becomes the term for a seductive female spy, goes on trial in France accused of spying for Germany. She’s subsequently found guilty and shot by firing squad.
• E) 1998: Saving Private Ryan, a WWII drama starring Tom Hanks, is released in the US. It becomes a critical and commercial success, earning five Academy Awards, including best director for Steven Spielberg.
• C) 2023: Elon Musk rebrands social media site Twitter as X after merging Twitter with his company X Holdings.