| | Good evening, and a warm welcome to those receiving this email for the first time in a while (or ever). We resolved an issue with certain email providers, which had prevented us from sending to those addresses. In tonight’s edition: - 🧇 Waffle trainers
- 🧩 New puzzles
- 🏎️ GOAT F1 drivers
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📜 February 26: On This Day in History |  | Don’t call it a comeback |  Image: The DONUT/OpenAI | Each of the following events happened on February 26. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Napoleon escapes exile and attempts to make a comeback. French troops sent to stop him instead join his forces, but they prove no match for the Duke of Wellington’s troops. Napoleon’s leadership officially ends with his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and banishment to the island of St. Helena.
- B) Nike receives a US patent for its iconic waffle trainer running shoes. Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman invented the now-iconic soles by pouring polyurethane into his family’s waffle iron during breakfast.
- C) A bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a massive, multi-story crater and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the bomb, planted by radical Islamic fundamentalists, fails to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, it causes six deaths and injures 1,000+ others.
- D) President Woodrow Wilson officially designates the Grand Canyon as a national park. The geological wonder would go on to become one of America's most popular tourist attractions.
Hint: Napoleon followed the motto: “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” |
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🙌🪖 In partnership with WarriorWOD | | Why veterans quit therapy but show up to the gym | 
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Boots and buckles | Head out west to the cattle ranch for today’s Conjoiner. Rope in all the clues to solve the puzzle. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Ranch hand who handles livestock, or a famous denim brand”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniMess around with today’s mini and it’ll turn around and toss you. Can you solve the puzzle and get out unscathed? SudokuEasy to start, fun to pursue; each square’s waiting on you! |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Who's the greatest F1 driver of all time? | 
| The Schumacher vs. Hamilton argument never actually ends. Now you have to pick a side. Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, and the first battles are already forcing uncomfortable decisions. Showdowns include: ...and much more. |
| | Click here to start your GOAT List |
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📜 Answers | | A, D, C, B - A) 1815 – Napoleon escapes exile and attempts to make a comeback.
- D) 1919 – The Grand Canyon is officially designated as a national park.
- C) 1974 – Nike receives a US patent for its waffle trainer running shoes. The original waffle iron used to make the first shoe is now on display at Nike headquarters.
- B) 1993 – A terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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