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Which Kansas City Chiefs quarterback joined voluntary workouts as he targets a Week 1 return from a serious knee injury?
💡 Patrick Mahomes
For the first time since the 1994-95 strike, MLB owners have proposed what controversial measure to the players' union?
💡 Salary cap
Which British conductor was hired to succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic?
💡 Daniel Harding
Mixed bag
From Gregor Mendel's pea plants to the double helix of DNA, what is the name of the branch of biology devoted to the study of heredity, genes, and the variation of traits passed from parents to offspring?
💡 Genetics
Ratified in 1913 after years of political wrangling, which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to levy a federal income tax on Americans' earnings?
💡 16th Amendment
In insurance markets and economics, what is the name of the market failure that arises from asymmetric information — causing a pool of buyers or sellers to be disproportionately composed of high-risk participants, as when only the sickest people seek health coverage, driving up premiums and potentially causing the market to unravel?
💡 Adverse selection
On this date (29 May)
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of which mountain, the tallest on Earth?
💡 Mount Everest
On May 29, 1919, observations made during a solar eclipse provided the first experimental confirmation of whose general theory of relativity?
💡 Albert Einstein
On May 29, 1914, the Canadian Pacific ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River after a collision with a Norwegian collier, killing over 1,000 people. What was the name of the Norwegian vessel that struck her?
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