Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 29, 2014)

Some Interesting Anagrams



Rearrange the letters to form new words, phrases, places, or names.

The words in parentheses are hints.



ONE ON ALP (conqueror)

SEEK A PHRASE (playful fellow)

KNEE CRUTCH ART (great ballet)

NONE MISTER (soup)

TOXIC NAME (April agony)

HE BUGS GORE





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Brain Teaser 4/28/2014

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?



What's the next in the series?

Solution

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Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music…

Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat’.

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Funny Llama Optical Illusion

It’s an early Monday morning and I bet a lot of you are settling in right now at your desks to start the work day. I have a nice, steaming cup of coffee sitting here on my desk and I’ve been guzzling it down. I’m eager to get the day started with all of you and I hope you’re eager to get it started with me :).

Lately, I’ve been sharing a lot of animal optical illusions. One of the animal optical illusions I posted up last week actually got a good bit of attention, because most of you thought the bird legs optical illusion was just too cute, because we all know why this bird has legs under her. There are little baby birds under her that she is protecting. To me, that illusion is just way too cute! I hope you like today’s animal optical illusion I’m going to post up, as well. Check it out by scrolling down.

At a quick glance, this illusion could definitely throw some people off. I don’t know about you, but I think llamas are cute animals anyway, so this optical illusion is pretty funny to me. I hope all of you enjoyed it, as well.

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Today in History for 28th April 2014

Historical Events

1958 - Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

1969 - King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts

1986 - Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster

1988 - Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row

1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns

2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

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Famous Birthdays

1810 - Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1914 - Skuli Halldorsson, composer

1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer

1966 - John Patrick Daly, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 British Open)

1970 - Richard Fromberg, Australia, tennis star

1974 - Penélope Cruz, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno)

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Famous Deaths

1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)

1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)

1936 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies

1977 - Ricardo Cortez, American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76

1992 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82

2005 - Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)

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Americans can’t pass their own citizenship test…

Americans can’t pass their own citizenship test. An impressive 91% of immigrants who seek to take an American citizenship test pass it. A sampling of Miami residents — all of whom were naturalized American citizens — didn’t do as well. Only 1 in 15 passed.

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The only person who is allowed alcohol in the Houses of Parliament is…

The only person who is allowed alcohol in the Houses of Parliament is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is allowed to drink whilst announcing the annual Budget.

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Chinese companies have been caught making tofu…

Chinese companies have been caught making tofu out of sewage and marinating meat in goat urine.

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There is a rare sleeping disorder called…

There is a rare sleeping disorder called Kleine–Levin syndrome that causes people to sleep for weeks at a time waking only to eat or go to the bathroom.

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After searching for his biological mother for years…

After searching for his biological mother for years, a man found her working at LOWES with him. After more than three years without success, he went back to the agency and found that the reason he couldn’t find his mother was because he was misspelling her last name. They literally gave him her name, and it took him 4 years to find her because he misspelled it every single time for almost 4 years.

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Elephants not only tend to grieve for their dead, they also have…

Elephants not only tend to grieve for their dead, they also have the ability to recognize skulls of other elephants. They examine the remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants.

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