Saturday 18 October 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 19, 2014)

What Am I?



You have no control over me,

I am not real, though sometimes you believe me,

I come back every night, but am often forgotten,

Though left alone, I will never become rotten,

Sometimes I remind you of things yet to come,

Sometimes, watching me, you do things you've never done,

I rarely ever turn out to be true,

Now I am done with this riddle for you.



What am I?





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Brain Teaser 10/18/2014

1. Which would you rather have, an old hundred dollar bill or a new one?



2. Picture an empty, clear 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?

Solution

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How much do you make? It’d be no secret in Scandinavia…

How much do you make? It’d be no secret in Scandinavia. Sweden annually publishes everyone’s income tax returns. So do Finland and Norway. Technically, you can see what your brother-in-law made, your neighbor made. Making the data public demonstrates the Scandinavian tradition of jantelag, which translates roughly as nobody is better than anyone else.






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In 2008 a small town mayor was mistakenly…

Cheye Calvo, Trinity Tomsic In 2008 a small town mayor was mistakenly raided by a swat team. He was held at gun point and claims his dogs we’re killed for sport, one while it was running away.






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The inventor of the shopping cart had to…

The inventor of the shopping cart had to pay people to push them around for 2 years before people would use them.






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In 1963, four Princeton students forced a local…

In 1963, four Princeton students forced a local train to stop by parking a car on the tracks. With a gun loaded with blanks, they got on the train, picked four girls as their dates, and rode away with them on horseback.






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Women have historically been barred from cooking…

cooking-sushi Women have historically been barred from cooking sushi due to a superstition that their hands are too warm.






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Owning an electric car in Norway grants…

Owning an electric car in Norway grants you free public parking, free ferry trips, and the right to drive in bus lanes.






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Prior to the first nuclear bomb detonation in July of 1945, isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 simply did…

Prior to the first nuclear bomb detonation in July of 1945, isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 simply did not exist in nature. Pieces of art and bottles of wine created before 1945 can be tested for cesium, if they contain traces of cesium they would almost certainly be fake.






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A man received 5 years in prison after…

A man received 5 years in prison after being caught sprinkling his feces onto baked goods at a grocery store.






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George Clooney once said that he’d trade…

George Clooney once said that he’d trade lives with Richard Branson if he could. Branson’s wife instantly responded: “Done!”






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35% of Saudi women in prison are there because…

35% of Saudi women in prison are there because no male relative will collect them.






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The Soviet Union refused to host the 1980…

The Soviet Union refused to host the 1980 Paralympics, stating that none of their citizens had disabilities.






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Today in History for 18th October 2014

Historical Events


1901 - Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights

1904 - Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

1968 - Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas

1977 - Reggie Jackson hits 3 consecutive homers tying Ruth's series record

1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1988 - Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist


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Famous Birthdays


1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)

1653 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)

1947 - Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam

1950 - Om Puri, Indian actor

1958 - Thomas Hearns, American boxer

1975 - Rebeca Tamez, Miss Mexico Universe (1997)


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Famous Deaths


1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)

1997 - Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62

1997 - Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70

2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939)

2007 - Alan Coren, English writer and satirist (b. 1938)

2008 - Dee Dee Warwick, American soul singer (b. 1945)


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