Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 15, 2014)

Pairs in Rhyme



Each of these pairs of words is a rhyme for a familiar phrase. (ex: car and ride = far and wide)



1. Toe and shell

2. Side and coup

3. Graze and greens

4. Frost and ground

5. Hutch and row

6. Fume and chord

7. Splash and harry

8. Dyed and pique





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Jellyfish in Space!

Extraterrestrials

We have shown you Alexander Semenov’s spectacular photography before when we featured his awesomely creepy worms.

Alexander has a degree in Zoology, is the Chief Diver for the White Sea Biological Station, and takes eerily beautiful underwater pictures of sea creatures.

Jellyfish Space is a photo series that looks at the gelatinous creatures from a unique perspective.

Alexander literally gets UNDER the jellyfish and points his camera up towards the sky.

The water is so clear it makes the alien-looking creatures appear like they are floating in dark outer space or our clear blue sky!

Jellyfishes are completely extraterrestrial beings. Graceful, dangerous, beautiful.

Image courtesy of Alexander Semenov. For more visit his Flickr and Facebook.

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A tribe of Asian pygmies called the Taron…

A tribe of Asian pygmies called the Taron are purposely letting themselves go extinct. They are a pure and isolated race, but inbreeding has caused deformities and mental issues that have prompted their decision to die out and have consequently dwindled down to 12.

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Rotating Optical Illusion

How’s everyone doing out there on this awesome Monday morning? I hope you’re all doing very well and I certainly hope you got out and enjoyed the hot sun over the weekend. I certainly took advantage of it and I’m really sore today, because I stayed active in the outdoors all weekend. Believe it or not, I even have a sunburn. It’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were getting pelted with snow. What did you do over the weekend? Let me know in the comments section.

Today, I’m going to post up another optical illusion that is really cool to look at. If you’re hungry for another brain teaser, you have nothing to worry about. I might post another one up very soon that will give you all a nice challenge. At the bottom of this post I’ll hook you up with a link to a good brain teaser, so make sure you stick around for that. Check out the cool optical illusion below to see a great effect in action.

Move your head in-and-out, closer and further away from the monitor, and the colored ring looks like it’s moving in a clockwise and counter clockwise direction. The amazing thing about this effect is that this is a static image. In other words, it’s not animated in any way.

So, are you ready for that brain teaser optical illusion I mentioned above? If so, check out this Ocean Ripple Optical Illusion.

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Today in History for 14th April 2014

Historical Events

1028 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king

1629 - England and France sign Peace of Susa

1881 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.

1940 - RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia

1940 - Allied troops land in Norway

1967 - Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at

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Famous Birthdays

1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)

1895 - Wiktor Labunski, composer

1904 - John Gielgud, London England, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)

1935 - Joan Darling, Boston, actress (Frieda-Owen Marshall)

1945 - Derek Leckenby, rocker/actor (Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter)

1958 - Michael Patrick Hulbert, Elmira NY, PGA golfer (1989 BC Open)

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Famous Deaths

1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland

1655 - Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39

1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)

1914 - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58

1985 - Noele Gordon, British actress (Crossroads) dies aged 65.

2008 - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)

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Brain Teaser 4/14/2014

Go Figure...



1. My friend Albert the butcher wears a size 13 shoe, is six feet tall, and wears a 42-long suit. What does he weigh?



2. See if you can translate the following?

Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E



3. A 30 year old man married a 25 year old woman. She died at age 50 and her husband was so devastated that he cried for years. Ten years after he stopped crying, he died. If he had lived to be 80, how many years was he a widower?

Solution

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In 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert…

In 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert and flew nuclear armed fighter jets along Soviet airspace for three days. This was part of Nixon’s Madman Theory, in which he tried to give off the image that he was unstable to make sure the Soviets would never provoke the U.S.

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People literally grow trees and roots…

People literally grow trees and roots into bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, etc… It’s known as “Tree Shaping.” Theoretically, it can even be used to grow homes.

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Colorado switched mile marker “420″…

Colorado switched mile marker “420″ to “419.99″ in order to stop people from stealing it. The number 420 is often used as a reference to smoking marijuana.

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34 years ago, Carl Sagan stated that the total energy…

34 years ago, Carl Sagan stated that the total energy picked up by all the radio telescopes on the entire planet in all of history is less than the energy of “a single snowflake hitting the ground”. The count is now around 2 snowflakes.

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The longest prison sentence in the world…

The longest prison sentence in the world was 141,078 years for running a Thai pyramid scheme.

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A painting bought by a priest for £400 was revealed on…

A painting bought by a priest for £400 was revealed on Antiques Roadshow UK to be the work of the 17th Century master Sir Anthony Van Dyck, worth £400,000. The priest was happy to have the extra money to buy new church bells.

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There is a frog which lets itself completely freeze into…

There is a frog which lets itself completely freeze into a ‘frogsicle’ every Winter. Its heart stills, blood stops flowing, and eyes go white because its lenses freeze. In the Summer it thaws and hops away, good as new.

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