Today's Daily Brain Teaser (May 27, 2014)

The Vowel-less Knights #2



If you have played Might and Magic (a computer game), then you have encountered the Vowel-less Knights, a strange group who speak without vowels. It is up to you to decipher what they are saying. In their tradition then, what are the following sayings?



1) shll rtrn.



2) Th sht hrd rnd th wrld.



3) Cm p nd s m smtm.





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Brain Teaser 5/26/2014

A boy leaves home in the morning to go to school. At the moment he leaves, the house he looks at the clock in the mirror. The clock has no number indication, and for this reason the boy makes a mistake in interpreting the time [mirror-image]. Just assuming the clock must be out of order, the boy cycles to school, where he arrives after twenty minutes. At that moment, the clock at school shows a time that is two and a half hours later than the time that the boy saw on the clock at home.

At what time did he reach school?

Solution

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Don’t Look Down Optical Illusion

How did all of you enjoy Memorial Day? I hope all of you spent the weekend with the ones that you care about and that you had an amazing and fun time. I personally decided to hang out with some friends and family members for Memorial Day and I had an amazing time. Plus, you simply couldn’t ask for better weather. As a matter of fact, I bet a lot of you are reading this post from the comfort of your own home, because I know a lot of you probably didn’t even have to work today. If that’s the case, I hope you’ll allow me to provide you with a little bit of entertainment on your day off with today’s optical illusion.

The illusion below was submitted once again by another Facebook user. As always, I give my thanks for the person who sent this in, because it definitely helps me out when I’m trying to find new content for the website. This optical illusion is an amazing piece of artwork. Check it out below and I guarantee that you’ll like it.

This is just an absolutely amazing piece of artwork, in my opinion. Also, it looks like these kids are having a blast interacting with it.

Want to see another fun optical illusion? Let’s see if you can spot the hidden owl in this picture.

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Today in History for 26th May 2014

Historical Events

1926 - Lebanon adopts constitution

1955 - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

1961 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

1972 - Nixon and Brezhnev signs SALT accord

1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.

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Famous Birthdays

1907 - Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)

1938 - Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess

1947 - Piers Gray, critic/writer

1949 - Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Raiders) [or Dec 25]

1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist

1996 - Austin Michael Luciano, actor (Dante Carlino-Another World)

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Famous Deaths

1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (1413-21). B. 1389.

1595 - Philippus Nerius, [Filippo Neri], Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79

1831 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies

1963 - Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53

1968 - William E "Little Willie" John, US RandB-singer (Fever), dies at 30)

2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)

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Engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found…

Engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean; someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out.

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