Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 01, 2014)

What Doesn't Belong?



Which one of the following does not belong with the others?



Binoculars, eyeglasses, goggles, handlebars, jeans, pliers, scissors, shoes, tweezers





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Brain Teaser 6/30/2014

1. I'm in a rock, not in a stone

I'm in marrow, not in bone

I'm in a bolster, not in a bed

I'm not living , I'm not dead



2. I have seven letters. The first two stand for a boy. The first three stand for a girl. The first four stand for a brave boy. But all of my letters stand for a brave girl. What word am I?

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Today in History for 30th June 2014

Historical Events

833 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned

1871 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms

1939 - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde

1958 - "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24

1970 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2

1984 - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia

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Famous Birthdays

1879 - Walter Hampden, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)

1929 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher

1930 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer

1931 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch and Go, Children Galore)

1969 - Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)

1975 - Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)

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Famous Deaths

1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)

1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)

1935 - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies

1995 - Phyllis Hyman, RandB/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45

1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41

1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)

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Sean Connery was offered the part of Gandalf…

Sean Connery was offered the part of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and 15% of the box office takings of the movies, but turned it down because he didn’t understand the script. The 15% ended up being nearly 450 million dollars.

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The Cleveland Browns are one of the oldest and one of the newest…

The Cleveland Browns are one of the oldest and one of the newest teams in the NFL, because in 1995 the Browns became the the Baltimore Ravens, but in 1999 the Browns rebooted their franchise in Cleveland.

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An Oxford University study has found that for every person…

An Oxford University study has found that for every person you fall in love with and accommodate into your life you lose two close friends.

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The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate…

The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. The mathematical modelling for the explosion was done by Carl Sagan.

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There is a medical condition named akinetopsia where you cannot perceive…

There is a medical condition named akinetopsia where you cannot perceive the motion of objects but can still see acutely and recognize objects normally. Everything seems to be frozen in time only to “jump ahead” in time and freeze again.

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A vigilante named Rodrigo Duterte has transformed…

A vigilante named Rodrigo Duterte has transformed the murder capital of the Philippines to “the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia” by killing multiple drug leaders and traffickers. He was dubbed The Punisher by Time Magazine.

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Gang boss Monk Eastman decided to enlist in the Army at age 42 to fight…

Gang boss Monk Eastman decided to enlist in the Army at age 42 to fight in WWI. During his physical, the doctor asked Monk in which war he got all of his knife and bullet scars. Monk replied, “Oh! A lot of little wars around New York”.

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A mantis shrimp (2-5 inches big) was provoked by a researcher…

A mantis shrimp (2-5 inches big) was provoked by a researcher, and the animal punched its aquarium wall, shattering the glass and flooding the office. Turns out the mantis shrimp’s punch is so fast, it boils the water around it when delivered.

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