Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Sep 03, 2014)

Backward



You can do it in vessels for getting you clean.

You can do it to fabric to stop being seen.

You are doing it when you've come up short.

You've done it too when you've equalled in sport.

This may sound like there should be images but then,

You can do all those things without pencil or pen.



What is the word?





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Watch Yet Another Ice Bucket Challenge Go Hilariously Wrong

The ALS ice bucket challenge is pretty straightforward, right?



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Want To Easily Amuse Yourself? Attach Party Blowers To A Car Exhaust

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John Langley, creator of the TV show “COPS”, intentionally shows…

John Langley, creator of the TV show “COPS”, intentionally shows more white criminals on the show than black ones, despite it being the opposite statistically. He still receives numerous complaints for portraying African Americans badly.






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Check Out This Girl's Amazing, Vocals-Only Cover Of Michael Jackson's ‘The Way You Make Me Feel'

Kawehi Wight, take a bow.



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Video Shows Swimmers On Florida Beach Being Totally Oblivious To Shark Lurking Right By Them

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Brain Teaser 9/2/2014

Halloween is only 2 months away so lets get a little Tricky!



1. What word, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and up side down?



2. In Jamaica, if you drop a steel ball weighing five pounds from a height of 45 inches, will it fall more rapidly through water at 20 degrees Fahrenheit or water at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Or will it make no difference?

Solution

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An office enriched with plants makes staff happier…

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Brian May started writing his PhD thesis on the Zodiacal dust cloud…

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Oxford University is older than the Aztecs…

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Today in History for 2nd September 2014

Historical Events


1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series

1967 - The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.

1974 - US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act

1985 - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000

1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season

1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania


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Famous Birthdays


1918 - Allen Drury, author (Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)

1936 - David Leonard Blake, composer

1943 - Rosalind Ashford, Detroit, rock vocalist (Martha Reeve and Vandellas)

1966 - Dino Cazares, American musician

1977 - Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer

1989 - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)


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Famous Deaths


1934 - Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, US singer/violist, dies at 26

1942 - Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)

1992 - Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies

1994 - Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82

2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)

2013 - Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, dies at 78


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