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

Strange Recipe



Susan needed to go to the store to buy some ingredients to cook with. She started writing them down:

Butter

Milk

Eggs

Baking Soda

Cashews

Oranges

Vinegar

Lemon Juice



What was Susan making?





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Photographer Patrick Hall films people’s reactions as…

Photographer Patrick Hall films people’s reactions as they get tasered with a handheld stun gun. Here are those reactions in slow-mo video form.

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In 1982 a 15 year old runaway lived in an elevator shaft for 2 months…

In 1982 a 15 year old runaway lived in an elevator shaft for 2 months. He rewired the elevator to work as he wanted, and was caught when residents smelled cooking hot dogs.

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There is a homeless shelter organization called “My Friend’s Place” so that…

There is a homeless shelter organization called “My Friend’s Place” so that those in need don’t also have to go through the embarrassment of telling others that they’re homeless.

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Brain Teaser 8/26/2014

In 1209, on a hot summer day there was a man who was ordered to be executed by king. The king was a nice king though, and he said that if the man could prove himself wise, he would let him go. The king filled a room with fake flowers, and only put in one real flower in the room. The king said the man had 20 seconds to find the real flower. The man said, "It's very stuffy in here. Could you open a window?" The king opened a window, and the man immediately knew which was the real flower. How did he know?

Solution

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The director of the movie Cannibal Holocaust was arrested…

The director of the movie Cannibal Holocaust was arrested for murder 10 days after the movie premier, as the courts did not understand how an impalement scene was done, and actually believed that an actress was murdered for the scene. He literally had to bring in all the “murdered” actors to prove his innocence.

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This place is a dive…

Oh, and by the way here’s some booze.

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Today in History for 26th August 2014

Historical Events

1745 - Britan, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty

1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)

1924 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.

1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.

1988 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.

2008 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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Famous Birthdays

1913 - Tschakowski, writer

1915 - Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)

1915 - William Bardwell, composer

1918 - Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)

1943 - Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)

1960 - Nancy Martinez, rocker

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Famous Deaths

1865 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73

1908 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)

1963 - Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67

1978 - Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78

1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97

2001 - Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)

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