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  • 🤵‍♂️ Who killed Hoffa?
  • 🧩 New puzzles
  • 🧸 GOAT toy brands

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📜 July 30: On This Day in History

Into enemy waters

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Each of the following events happened on July 30. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

  • A) The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sinks within minutes in shark-infested waters. Only 316 of 1,196 men on board survive, though the Indianapolis had already completed its major mission: delivery of key components of an atomic bomb to be dropped a week later at Hiroshima.
  • B) President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. Former President Harry Truman is enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary at the bill-signing ceremony.
  • C) Two years after pushing to have the phrase “under God” inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring “In God We Trust” to be America’s official motto.
  • D) Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in Bloomfield Hills, MI, under mysterious circumstances. Hoffa went to a restaurant in suburban Detroit for what is thought to have been a meeting with Teamster officials. He’s never seen again, and later legally declared “presumed dead.” The case remains unsolved to this day.

Hint: You only have to swap two events to get the correct order

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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game

Hang 10, brah

Today’s Conjoiner is catching the perfect wave. Ride the clues below all the way to the finish.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Water sports equipment used to catch waves”...

Play the sequence here

🧩 Puzzle Corner

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Rise and shine! Today's mini is ready whenever you are.

Sudoku

Keep it steady, keep it slick; solve this sudoku brick by brick.

🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best

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Every cheese has its defenders. Some people want sharp and crumbly. Others only care how it melts on a burger or pizza. Then you've got the fancy crowd, the grilled cheese loyalists, and the people who'll eat an entire block straight from the fridge.

Pick your favorites, settle the arguments, and see which cheese deserves the crown.

Showdowns include:

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🧸 THE GREATEST TOY BRANDS OF ALL TIME

  1. LEGO
  2. Barbie
  3. Fisher-Price
  4. Hot Wheels
  5. Play-Doh

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

📜 Answers

A, C, B, D

  • A) 1945 – The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in shark-infested waters.
  • C) 1956 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law declaring “In God We Trust” to be America’s official motto.
  • B) 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare into law.
  • D) 1975 – Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappears.

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