Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 14, 2014)

Lines



Birbal was jester, counselor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar. The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness, and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him. One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor. "Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."

Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal. It was clearly an impossible task. Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it. How could this be?





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The fastest Red Card ever given in soccer was given 2 seconds after…

The fastest Red Card ever given in soccer was given 2 seconds after the starting whistle was blown, when footballer Lee Todd exclaimed “F**k me, that was loud”.

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Hungry Soldier Optical Illusion

On Saturday, I posted an optical illusion about a giant on the beach eating people. A lot of you really liked this optical illusion and some of you even said that you would like to go to the beach and recreate this illusion on your own. Honestly, I don’t even remember seeing a single negative comment about this illusion, so I’m pretty happy about that. I like it when I can post up illusions that you’re all happy with with. If you want to check out the illusion I’m referring to, you can click here. If you want, you can leave a comment or a rating and let me know what you think. :)

Today, I have another new optical illusion that is somewhat similar to the giant on the beach optical illusion. This one, however, involves a soldier and he’s certainly worked up an appetite. Scroll down below to see what I mean.

Now that’s what I call an M.R.E. (meal ready to eat.) I hope you all enjoy this optical illusion as much as you did the giant on the beach illusion.

Want to see another cool optical illusion for today? If so, check out this optical illusion and see if you can spot the mistake.

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Today in History for 13th May 2014

Historical Events

1888 - DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"

1912 - Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain

1970 - Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres

1981 - Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II

1995 - 6.5 earthquake hits Greece

2006 - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.

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Famous Birthdays

1742 - Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)

1776 - Charles Ots, composer

1896 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)

1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter

1974 - Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)

1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress

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Famous Deaths

1839 - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies

1885 - Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies

1916 - Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies

1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)

1942 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41

2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)

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Brain Teaser 5/13/2014

It's About Time



1. If 2 hours ago it was as long after one o’clock in the afternoon as it was before one o’clock in the morning. What time would it be now?



2. It was the middle of the winter in Scandinavia, and the poor boy, sick with a cold, was lying in bed. He woke up in the night, but he knew that the night lasted from 3:00 P.M. to 9:00 A.M. at that time of year. The boy wearily glanced at his clock and, thinking it said 4:42, buried his head back in the pillow. But as he fell asleep he realized he hadn't distinguished the hour hand from the minute hand. If it wasn't 4:42 in the morning, what other time (or times) could it have been?

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Chinese artist He Yunchang believes in suffering for his art…

Chinese artist He Yunchang believes in suffering for his art. His performance pieces have included:

• Having one of his ribs removed so that he could wear it as a necklace.


• Having a doctor cut a one meter gash down the side of his body, without anesthesia.


• Encasing himself in a cube of quick-setting concrete for 24 hours.


• Trying to “cut a river in half” by suspending himself above it from a crane while holding a knife in the water, as blood dripped from cuts in his arms.


• Painting the fingernails and toenails of 10 mannequins with his own blood.


• Staring at 10,000 watt bulbs to damage his eyesight


• Burning his clothes while wearing them.

Art critic Judith Neilson explains:

“He Yunchang is an alchemist of pain… He Yunchang evidently believes that pain and extreme discomfort, deliberately planned and willingly undergone, have a transcendent quality — and that it is this quality that raises mere action to the level of art. [His performances] serve as silent rebukes to contemporary Chinese society, where people undergo all kinds of suffering for money precisely because they see money as the ultimate protection against suffering.“

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Here’s a video that’s bound to stir up some controversy…

Here’s a video that’s bound to stir up some controversy. This woman, who shows all the classic sign of possession (yes, like The Exorcist) loses it on the subway and starts a fight with the Native American guy next to her. Now the question is, do you think this is a real possession, a crazy person, or just a hoax?

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JFK’s sister was given one of the first lobotomies because…

JFK’s sister was given one of the first lobotomies because of her mood swings. Doctors asked her to sing God Bless America while they cut into her brain, and stopped when she “became incoherent”.

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In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribe people donated 14 cows…

In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribe people donated 14 cows to to the U.S. to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

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When the current King of Thailand was born in Cambridge…

When the current King of Thailand was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the hospital room in which he was born was declared Thai territory for the duration of the birth so that he could be born on Thai soil.

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In the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons…

In the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.”

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Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president…

Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the US, was the first president to have electricity in the White House but he never touched any light switches because he was too scared of getting electrocuted.

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There is a website, where you pick a category and then find what kind of crazy…

There is a website, where you can pick a category and find a kind of crazy, unrelated statistical correlations that make it look like something funny is going on, such as margarine consumption and the divorce rate in Maine.

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Average Americans think they’re smarter than…

Average Americans think they’re smarter than the average American. Fifty-five percent of Americans think that they are smarter than the average American, according to a new survey by YouGov. A humble 34 percent of citizens say they are about as smart as everyone else, while a dispirited 4 percent say they are less intelligent than most people.

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