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Which NBA team completed a comeback from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Boston Celtics in Game 7, led by Joel Embiid?
💡 Philadelphia 76ers
Elon Musk took the stand for a third day in a contentious trial over which AI company's pivot from nonprofit to for-profit status?
💡 OpenAI
Amazon's Prime Video announced a partnership to dive into college sports by teaming up with which university's basketball program?
💡 Duke
Mixed bag
Sprawling across much of South America and teeming with more species than anywhere else on Earth, what is the name of the world's largest tropical rainforest?
💡 Amazon rainforest
What is the name of the cognitive bias in which people with limited knowledge or skill in a domain tend to dramatically overestimate their own competence — while true experts often underestimate theirs?
💡 Dunning-Kruger effect
Proved independently by Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel and Italian mathematician Paolo Ruffini in the early 19th century, what theorem establishes that there is no general formula using basic arithmetic operations and radicals that can solve polynomial equations of degree five or higher?
💡 Abel-Ruffini theorem
On this date (3 May)
On May 3, 1979, a general election was held in the United Kingdom that resulted in which politician becoming the country's first female Prime Minister?
💡 Margaret Thatcher
On May 3, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants. What legal term describes such private agreements that restrict property use based on race?
💡 Restrictive covenants
On May 3, 1765, the first medical school in the American colonies was established in Philadelphia. What is the name of that institution, which is still in operation today as part of the University of Pennsylvania?
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