Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 📸 An Instagram milestone
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🎤 The GOAT rap albums

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on October 3. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Michael Jordan retires from professional basketball, saying “I don't have anything else to prove”...though he returns less than two years later.
• B) Instagram is released to the public in Apple's App Store, and reaches 25,000 users on its first day. The app goes on to reach one million users within two months, a milestone that took Facebook over two years to achieve.
• C) Formosus—a previously-excommunicated man who had a turbulent history with the Roman Catholic Church—is elected pope. He dies five years later, and is posthumously put on trial (corpse exhumed and all) in one of the most bizarre incidents in papal history.
• D) The Jazz Singer, America’s first feature-length “talkie,” premieres, ushering out Hollywood's silent film era. The film only has about two minutes of synchronized dialogue though; the rest uses titles.

Hint: Talk, then retire. We just wanted to share📱.

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Don’t leave today’s Conjoiner sequence high and dry just because it’s Monday. Dig in and start the week off right.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “To leave and give up on‘”...

Mini

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Sudoku

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• Play today's puzzle here.

Click to play any (or all) of the three challenges below, then pick the GOAT through a series of head-to-head matchups. This data-driven process was developed to create definitive best-of-all-time lists using a more objective approach than random bloggers just publishing controversial opinions for clicks.

• 🇺🇸 THE GREATEST AMERICAN FOODS OF ALL TIME
• 🇲🇽 THE GREATEST MEXICAN FOODS OF ALL TIME
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🎤 THE GREATEST RAP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

1. Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem)
2. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill)...
3. …and Illmatic (Nas) in a close third

Explore the full list, where #2-4 are separated by around a point.

🎸 THE GREATEST ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
2. The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
3. Rumours (Fleetwood Mac)

Explore the full list. Note: The above three are separated by less than two points.

☝️ RANKING THE BEST ‘80S ONE-HIT WONDERS

1. A-ha – “Take On Me”
2. Soft Cell – “Tainted Love”
3. Dexys Midnight Runners – “Come On Eileen”

Explore the full list.

Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change.

C, D, A, B

• C) 891: Formosus—a previously-excommunicated man who had a turbulent history with the Roman Catholic Church—is elected pope. He dies five years later, and is posthumously put on trial (corpse exhumed and all) in one of the most bizarre incidents in papal history.
• D) 1927: The Jazz Singer, America’s first feature-length “talkie,” premieres, ushering out Hollywood's silent film era.
• A) 1993: Michael Jordan retires from professional basketball, saying “I don't have anything else to prove”...though he returns less than two years later.
• B) 2010: Instagram is released to the public.