Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 28, 2014)

NASA Canaries



NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours. Why?





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Scott Neeson former president of 20th Century Fox International…

Scott Neeson former president of 20th Century Fox International, sold his mansion, Porsche, and yacht and left the industry to establish and personally oversee Cambodian Children’s Fund as Executive Director. (in Cambodia)

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A chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth…

A chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.

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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and 2-3 litters per year…

An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.

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There is a public toilet on a busy sidewalk…

There is a public toilet on a busy sidewalk, made of 1-way mirrors, in London.

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A Dutch crime writer wrote a pretty suspicious book…

A Dutch crime writer wrote a pretty suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse a year after his wife disappeared. He became a celebrity and spent the next decade hinting – in print and on TV – that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.

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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon earnings were invested…

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon earnings were invested in a floating restaurant, a fudge-making hotel, a computer game, a film nobody saw, a skateboard company, a car hire business, and a children’s shoe factory. All complete failures. They fled to France as tax exiles and recorded The Wall.

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The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain….

The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.

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A group of coconut crabs is called a “nightmare,” with leg spans…

A group of coconut crabs is called a “nightmare,” with leg spans reaching up to three feet, and are known to climb trees on their native islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans; they’ve also been observed devouring chickens and kittens.

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In 1977, an Israeli cargo ship rescued 66 starving Vietnamese Men…

In 1977, an Israeli cargo ship rescued 66 starving Vietnamese Men, women, and children, after their SOS signals had already been ignored by 4 other Countries. Israel then granted them all citizenship.

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The practice of focusing on disasters elsewhere when…

The practice of focusing on disasters elsewhere when one occurs in the Soviet Union was so common that after watching reports on Soviet television about a catastrophe abroad, Russians would call Western friends to find out whether something had happened in the Soviet Union.

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Brain Teaser 4/27/2014

A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?

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Dinner Table Optical Illusion

How’s everyone doing on this fine Sunday morning? I hope you are all doing great and that you have been enjoying your weekend thus far. The forecast says that today is going to be the best weather we have had all week long, so I’m definitely really excited to get outside and enjoy it. I highly suggest you do, as well, because we all know that Monday is when you have to start the work week back up again.

Today, I have a new optical illusion I’m going to post up that’s a little bit different. It’s a form of art, but in a different way. In my opinion, the person that created this piece of artwork has an amazing imagination, because they’ve used a bunch of different stuff in conjunction with each other to make an image. As you can see, this person has placed random items on a dinner table and it makes it look like there’s a giant face on the table. Want to see what I’m talking about? Go ahead and scroll down to see.

Now, that’s a pretty cool optical illusion, isn’t it? This person has some amazing talents.

Are you hungry for more optical illusions? If so, you should try to spot the object in this image.

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Today in History for 27th April 2014

Historical Events

1646 - King Charles I flees Oxford

1860 - Thomas Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry

1926 - In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance

1982 - Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins

1994 - 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)

2002 - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

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Famous Birthdays

1894 - George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)

1967 - Willem-Alexander CGF, Dutch crown prince/son of Queen Beatrix of Neth

1969 - Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

1970 - Tim Hanshaw, NFL guard (SF 49ers)

1971 - Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)

1980 - Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver

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Famous Deaths

1936 - Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies

1957 - Mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies

1962 - A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)

1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)

1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83

1994 - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48

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