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- 🧩 New puzzles
- 🫀 Change of heart
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📜 December 3: On This Day in History |  | Four bars of success |  Image: World of Engineering/X | Each of the following events happened on December 3. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The first SMS text message in history is sent: Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old engineer, uses a personal computer to send the text “Merry Christmas” to the phone of a colleague via the Vodafone network.
- B) 53-year-old Louis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
- C) Escaped slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass publishes his first anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star. The title refers to Polaris, the bright star that helps guide those fleeing slavery to the north.
- D) The first-ever performance of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy, electrifies the audience at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. When the curtain goes down, the crowd erupts into a round of applause that reportedly lasts 30 minutes.
Hint: North is often the first cardinal direction mentioned |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | It’s recess time | Many kids aspire to be the king of today’s Conjoiner. Can you finish the sequence and wear the crown atop the jungle gym? The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Where you can find monkey bars, slides, and swings”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniLike your favorite show, this puzzle is best enjoyed in one sitting. Can you beat it without pausing? SudokuIf the day feels stuck in glue, let this quick Sudoku reset you. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Which snack cake is the GOAT? | 
| From lunchbox legends to late-night sugar bombs, these are the treats that defined childhood (plus a few questionable adult decisions). Now they’re going bite-for-bite on GoatWars in the Greatest Snack Cakes of All Time league—and it’s time to decide which one truly takes the cake. Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the snacks you’d happily sneak from the pantry. Showdowns include: ...and much more. |
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📜 Answers | | C, D, B, A - C) 1847 – Frederick Douglass first publishes his anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.
- D) 1947 – Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire” holds an electrifying debut. Tandy goes on to win a Tony Award for her performance, with Williams awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
- B) 1967 – Scientists successfully complete the first human heart transplant in history.
- A) 1992 – The first SMS text message in history is sent.
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