| | Good evening. In tonight’s edition: - 🧙 All aboard the Hogwarts Express
- 🧩 New puzzles
- ⚽ GOAT World Cup players
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📜 June 26: On This Day in History |  | You’re a wizard, Harry |  Image: Bloomsbury Publishing | Each of the following events happened on June 26. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone hits shelves in the UK, bringing to life a bespectacled, orphaned wizard whose name was almost Harry Batt. The global blockbuster was rejected by 12 publishers before being picked up by Bloomsbury.
- B) A pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum becomes the first grocery item scanned with a Universal Product Code, or barcode. The result of years of scientific and industrial experimentation, the UPC barcode would become a ubiquitous feature of modern commerce, with billions scanned daily.
- C) The Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage can’t be banned in the US, granting same-sex couples equal rights to heterosexual couples under the law.
- D) Delegates from 50 countries sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving “succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
Hint: There are 3 unforgivable curses in Harry Potter |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Not Slytherin, Not Slytherin | Today's Conjoiner is worth more than house points. Connect the clues and earn a magical victory. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “The house Harry Potter was sorted into at Hogwarts; named after Godric _____”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniToday’s mini is jam packed with buttery good clues. Can you spread a little brainpower across the grid and solve the puzzle? SudokuIt’s Friday now, the workweek’s toast; turn off your laptop and let your logic coast. |
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🏆 Wednesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | ⚽ THE GREATEST WORLD CUP PLAYER OF ALL TIME OF ALL TIME - Pelé
- Lionel Messi
- Christiano Ronaldo
- Diego Maradona
- Zinedine Zidane
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | D, B, A, C - D) 1945 – Delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter
- B) 1974 – A pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum becomes the first grocery item with a barcode to be scanned.
- A) 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone hits shelves in the UK.
- C) 2015 – The Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage can’t be banned in the US.
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