Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 16, 2014)

Missing Letters 8



Below are incomplete words. Place three (3) letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.



acc (_ _ _) r

urg (_ _ _) ity

fas (_ _ _) acity

dunga (_ _ _) ling

fe (_ _ _) satile

gos (_ _ _) ping





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Brain Teaser 6/15/2014

1. There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors?



2. If we tie a light oxygen tank to a bird so that it can breathe on the moon, would the bird fly faster, slower, or the same speed as it does on earth? (Remember that there is less gravity on the moon.)

Solution

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Today in History for 15th June 2014

Historical Events

1876 - Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000

1897 - Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

1947 - 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

1957 - "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 perf

1976 - Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor and Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick and Jim Freeman

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Famous Birthdays

1949 - Michael Lutz, bassist (Brownsville Station)

1955 - Cathy Morse, LPGA golfer

1956 - Lance Parrish, baseball player

1970 - Janie Eickhoff, Long Beach California, US cyclist (Olympic-92)

1970 - Leah Remini, American actress

1980 - Almudena Cid, Spanish gymnast

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Famous Deaths

1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)

1979 - Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67

1984 - Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78

1984 - Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82

1995 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95

2006 - Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)

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Former Turkmenistan president-for-life Akhbar Turkmenbashi renamed constellations…

Former Turkmenistan president-for-life Akhbar Turkmenbashi renamed constellations and days of the week after himself and his mother.

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In the shamanic view of Dagara people, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer.”…

In the shamanic view of Dagara people, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer.” Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as “good news from the other world.” The person going through the crisis has been chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needs to be communicated from the spirit realm. “Mental disorder, behavioral disorder of all kinds, signal the fact that two obviously incompatible energies have merged into the same field,” These disturbances result when the person does not get assistance in dealing with the presence of the energy from the spirit realm.

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In 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town…

In 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed despite their being 30 – 40 witness to the shooting.

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Two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube…

Two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight and succeeded.

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In 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that…

In 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”

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You can kill a tree just by removing…

You can kill a tree just by removing a ring of bark on the main trunk. Since a tree grows outward by getting thicker, its water and nutrients are transported at a layer very close to the outermost layer. Girdling causes a disconnection of these layers of nutrient transport all the way around the tree, so it cuts off the portions of the tree above the girdle from the tree’s roots, starving the tree.

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A blind American man taught himself to navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include…

A blind American man taught himself to navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include hiking and mountain-biking, and he has now trained over 500 students in his ‘tongue-click’ technique.

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