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Which two-time AL Cy Young Award winner was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a blockbuster deadline deal from the Detroit Tigers?
💡 Tarik Skubal
President Trump criticized which U.S. Attorney after she said damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by shoddy construction, not vandals?
💡 Jeanine Pirro
Which German anatomist, famous for creating the controversial 'Body Worlds' exhibitions of preserved human corpses, recently died at 81?
💡 Gunther von Hagens
On this date (2 August)
On August 2, 1990, which Middle Eastern country invaded Kuwait, triggering the Gulf War?
💡 Iraq
On August 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as U.S. President following the death of which president?
💡 Warren G. Harding
On August 2, 216 BC, Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeated the Roman army in one of history's most studied battles of encirclement. What is the name of that battle?