The Crafty Puzzles Company: 05/01/14

Thursday 1 May 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 02, 2014)

A Cloud Was My Mother

A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place. What am I?

Check Braingle.com for the answer.

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Rally Truck

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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first…

Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.

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A skeleton, only 6-8 inches long was discovered outside a Chilean…

A skeleton, only 6-8 inches long was discovered outside a Chilean ghost town. It was declared to be human, and to have lived to be as old as 8 years. A definite explanation for it’s size, mutations, and origin has not been found.

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May The Force Be With You

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Most soft drinks will dissolve a mouse into…

Most soft drinks will dissolve a mouse into a jelly-like pulp in less than a month.

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An Ant and Helicopter Do Battle in This Optical Illusion

I’ve been putting a lot of work into the site lately to provide all of you with nothing but the best optical illusions I can find that haven’t been seen millions of times before. I know that this is why some of you are saying that you don’t like some of the illusions being posted as of late, but I’m trying to give you something new. For those of you that want to check out some of our classic illusions from the past, you can always scroll to the bottom of every new post I do. I always try to include a link at the bottom of each post to a classic optical illusion that was put up on the site in the past. Alternatively, you could follow the Facebook page, as I always post up one old illusion per day on there.

If you have any optical illusions that you haven’t seen on the site and you’d like to share them, you should submit them to me. I bet you would be surprised at how many user submissions actually make it onto the site!

Today, I have another cool optical illusion that I think you will all certainly enjoy. In this illusion, it looks as if a helicopter is about to do battle with an ant. Do you want to see what I’m talking about? If so, scroll down right now and have a look!

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think this is a cool optical illusion, but it’s also a really beautiful photograph. I used to dabble in photography and I know I’d be happy if I were able to get a shot like this one.

Want to see a classic optical illusion? Check out this 2 Boxers Optical Illusion.

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Today in History for 1st May 2014

Historical Events

1886 - US general strike for 8-hour working day begins

1944 - Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails

1945 - Soviet army reach Rostock

1954 - WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting

1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1989 - Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1907 - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)

1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)

1953 - Glen Ballard, American songwriter and record producer

1954 - Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)

1966 - Mark Coogan, Manhaset NY, marathoner (Olympics-96)

1969 - Carrie Stevens, Buffalo NY, playmate (June 1997)

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Famous Deaths

1447 - Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies

1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)

1945 - Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propoganda, commits suicide

1969 - George Parker, cricketer (2 Tests for S Afr 1924), dies

1972 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82

1993 - Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50

More Famous Deaths »

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Brain Teaser 5/1/2014

Bill, John, and Fred are going to marry Betty, Joan, and Sally. Tell which girl is going to marry which man if the following facts are true: Bill is a lawyer. Betty is not engaged to the engineer. The doctor's future wife is not Joan. John is engaged to Sally. Fred is the engineer.

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