Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 21, 2014)

My, That's Tall!



I was on a road trip with a friend when we drove past a very tall radio tower. I told my friend "That thing has to be at least a thousand feet tall!" He looked out the window for a moment, and said "I'll bet it's closer to 1500 feet." We stopped at a gas station and asked how tall the tower was, and it was exactly 1500 feet tall! Now that I owe my friend a steak dinner, how could he tell how tall the tower was?





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Brain Teaser 7/20/2014

In order to win a free laptop computer, students had to guess the exact numbers of gumballs in a jar. The students guessed 45, 41, 55, 50, and 43, but nobody won. The guesses were off by 3, 7, 5, 7, and 2 (given in no particular order). From this information, can you determine the number of gumballs in the jar?

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Today in History for 20th July 2014

Historical Events

1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm

1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)

1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the 'pope of the poor and humble'

1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds

1964 - 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City"

1980 - 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane

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Famous Birthdays

1762 - Jakob Haibel, composer

1819 - Paul Henrion, composer

1970 - Dean Wells, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)

1975 - Judy Greer, American actress

1975 - Ray Allen, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks)

1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor

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Famous Deaths

1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)

1944 - Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed

1944 - Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion

1944 - Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing

1958 - Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69

1977 - Carter De Haven, actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90

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The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup.

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Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to General Electric for work done troubleshooting a generator, and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer who performed the work, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford paid the bill.

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