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Which pope made a historic apology for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery?
💡 Pope Leo XIV
Which MLB team threw a combined no-hitter in a 9-0 win over the Texas Rangers?
💡 Houston Astros
Colorado Democrats voted overwhelmingly to censure their state's governor for commuting the prison sentence of what type of offender?
💡 Election conspiracy theorist
Mixed bag
Rising from the sands of Giza and built as the eternal resting place of the Pharaoh Khufu, what ancient structure is considered the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
💡 The Great Pyramid of Giza
In a series of famous 1950s psychology experiments, participants were shown lines of clearly different lengths and asked to match them — yet many went along with the obviously wrong answers given by actors in the room. What is the name of the psychologist who conducted these landmark studies on social conformity?
💡 Solomon Asch
Named after British economist Arthur Pigou, what is the term for a tax levied on a market activity that generates negative externalities — such as a carbon tax on emissions or a levy on cigarettes — designed to make producers internalize the social costs of their actions?
💡 Pigouvian tax
On this date (26 May)
On May 26, 1940, the British Royal Navy launched a massive military evacuation from the beaches of northern France. What was the name of this operation?
💡 Operation Dynamo
On May 26, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a landmark arms control agreement in Moscow. What is the common abbreviated name for this treaty?
💡 SALT I
On May 26, 1938, the U.S. House of Representatives established a special committee to investigate both fascist and communist activities in America. By what four-letter abbreviation is this committee best known?
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