Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 30, 2014)

5 Letter Word



I am a solitary word, 5 letters long.

Behead me, and I am still the same.

Behead me again, and I am still the same.



What word am I?





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Brain Teaser 6/29/2014

Picture an empty wine bottle with a cork secured at the top in the usual way. Inside the bottle a metal ring hangs suspended by a string. How is it possible to make the metal ring drop to the bottom of the bottle without touching the ring, the thread, the cork, or the bottle while leaving the cork in place and intact?

Solution

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While in a spin, a pilot ejected from his plane only to watch his unmanned…

While in a spin, a pilot ejected from his plane only to watch his unmanned F-106 recover from the spin and land safely in a field. It landed that way because of the weight reduction after ejection.

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Horror director Eli Roth showed villagers in a remote native…

Horror director Eli Roth showed villagers in a remote native village deep in the Peruvian Amazon the controversial 1980 horror film “Cannibal Holocaust”. To show them what a movie was. The villagers thought it was a comedy and the funniest thing they’ve ever seen.

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On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather, upset at the evening news…

On September 11, 1987, Dan Rather, upset at the evening news being delayed by a U.S. Open tennis match, walked off the set and when the match was over CBS was left with nothing but dead air for six minutes.

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Today in History for 29th June 2014

Historical Events

1900 - The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against the foreigners in China and blames hostilities on them, giving license to Boxers for even greater ferocity

1932 - USSR and China sign non-aggression treaty

1944 - Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead

1953 - XETV TV channel 6 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

1984 - Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990

1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI

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Famous Birthdays

1858 - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)

1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)

1938 - Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)

1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician

1965 - Barry D, [Iain Bakker], English pop musician (Jesus Jones)

1984 - Christopher Egan, Australian actor

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Famous Deaths

1875 - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82

1903 - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23

1996 - Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78

1996 - Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54

2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)

2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)

More Famous Deaths »

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You should not ever give rabbits a full body bath…

You should not ever give rabbits a full body bath, because they may possibly die from shock.

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NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds…

NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.

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