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Monday 19 May 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 20, 2014)

Serum

What phrase is illustrated here?

Injection 1: Rumour Shot

Patient: "That tickles."

Injection 2: Hearsay Shot

Patient: "Didn't feel it."

Injection 3: Fact Shot

Patient: "Ouch!"

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While held captive as a prisoner of war by the Germans…

While held captive as a prisoner of war by the Germans, Major Alexis Casdagli passed the time by cross-stitching. The Germans liked his needlework so much that they hung one of his works up on a wall for everyone to see, not realizing that he had hidden a secret message on it:

On the sides, Casdagli had written “God save the King” and “F**k Hitler” in Morse Code.

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Today in History for 19th May 2014

Historical Events

1608 - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague

1921 - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system

1930 - White women win voting rights in South Africa

1941 - New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland

1975 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India

1996 - STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit

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Famous Birthdays

1827 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)

1860 - Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier (1917-19)

1890 - Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69)

1931 - Ruben Radica, composer

1934 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author

1979 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer

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Famous Deaths

1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)

1971 - Bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer, dies at 76

1988 - Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90

1993 - Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75

1994 - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74

2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)

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Brain Teaser 5/19/2014

There was a guy who had a Fox, a Chicken, and a bag of Grain. He had to cross a river to get back home, but he could only take one item with him at a time. He could only take the fox, or the grain, or the chicken. Well, if you leave a chicken and a fox on one side of the river while taking the bag of grain across, the fox will eat the chicken, same thing with the chicken and the grain. Can’t leave those two alone or the chicken will eat the grain. How do you get them all across the river safely?

Solution

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A cop in New Mexico tasered a 10 year old…

A cop in New Mexico tasered a 10 year old on a playground during career day because the child did not want to wash the policeman’s cruiser.

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Life in Puritan New England was so hard that children…

Life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back. The Indians freed children of the work obligations they faced in the colonies — boys hunted, caught fish, and gathered nuts; and girls cultivated corn but had no master “to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased.”

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