📜 December 16: On This Day in History |  | The Juice is loose |  Image: Sports Illustrated | Each of the following events happened on December 16. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Buffalo Bills running back Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson becomes the first player in the National Football League to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season.
- B) The Boston Tea Party occurs. A group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act.
- C) Blockbuster science fiction film Avatar premieres. It was one of the most expensive films in history (officially $273 million)—and goes on to become one of the most successful movies ever, holding the title of highest-grossing film for nearly a decade.
- D) Two airplanes collide over New York City, killing a combined 134 people in the planes and on the ground. The improbable mid-air collision is the only such accident to have occurred over a major city in the US.
Hint: OJ is a third of a healthy breakfast |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Like and subscribe!😜 | Welcome back, DONUT fam! A lot of you have been asking about today’s Conjoiner. If you solve it, don’t forget to post a reaction and leave a comment. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Brand-promoting social media creator”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniToday’s mini nearly broke the internet. Show you’re trending in the right direction by solving the puzzle below: SudokuClear your head, refresh your hue. This tidy grid’s the perfect to-do. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Settle the debate: Who’s the toughest movie character of all time? | 
| Every vote builds your personal GOAT List — ranking the characters who take the most punishment, keep getting up, and somehow still win. From bare-knuckle survivors to unstoppable forces, these characters define toughness in completely different ways. Now they’re facing off on GoatWars in the Toughest Movie Characters of All Time league—and this one is going to hurt. Showdowns include: Some of these feel obvious. Others absolutely are not. |
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🏆 Friday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🏆 THE GREATEST SPORTS MOVIE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME - Rocky Balboa
- Happy Gilmore
- Herman Boone (Remember the Titans)
- Daniel LaRusso (The Karate Kid)
- Crash Davis (Bull Durham)
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, D, A, C - B) 1773 – The Boston Tea Party occurs. This act of rebellion leads to the Intolerable Acts, which helped spark the Revolutionary War.
- D) 1960 – Two airplanes collide over New York City. The crash on a snowy day is chalked up to pilot miscalculation by one plane.
- A) 1973 – O.J. Simpson rushes for 2,000 yards in a single season.
- C) 2009 – Avatar premieres. Director James Cameron had initially written a treatment—short summary—for Avatar in 1994, but delayed the project because he felt the technology required did not yet exist.
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