Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 13, 2015)

Praise Me or Curse Me



What am I?



You may praise your good fortune and curse all you hate,

Yet I rule all your chaos and gamble your fate.

By some I'm avoided by others I'm game,

Called by fat or slim, my meaning's the same.





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According the recent study, guys who posted lots of selfies, but didn’t really…

According the recent study, men who posted lots of selfies, but didn’t really spend time editing them, showed signs of above average psychopathy.

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In 1954 a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then…

In 1954 a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then rode his bike 700 miles in a week from D.C. to Atlanta because he was “homesick for Dixie and his grandmother’s fried chicken”.

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Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000…

Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.

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Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust…

Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.

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The entire country of Liechtenstein can be rented…

The entire country of Liechtenstein can be rented for $70,000 a day.

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A man spent $600 A DAY on the Florida Lotto, racking up…

A man spent $600 A DAY on the Florida Lotto, racking up $600,000 debt before hitting the jackpot.

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Mathematicians have jokingly proposed a standard unit of measurement…

Mathematicians have jokingly proposed a standard unit of measurement for beauty: the “millihelen.” Inspired by Helen of Troy, a millihelen is defined as “the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.”

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Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when…

Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”.

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Brain Teaser 1/12/2015

Let's Talk About Words...



1. There are many English words to which you can add one s to make plural nouns. There are very few that become singular again if you add another s. Can you name two?



2. Four of the words below have one significant feature in common which distinguishes them from the fifth word. Which is the odd man out?

REACT, TRACE, CATER, SCARE, CARTE



3. There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Solution

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Today in History for 12th January 2015

Historical Events

1493 - Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily

1970 - Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1971 - Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1971 - "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

1977 - Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

1992 - Last building in Gateway area in Cleveland is demolished

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Famous Birthdays

1896 - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)

1910 - Charles Martin, cartoonist

1924 - Jan Willem Radecker, sculptor/son of John Raedecker

1967 - Ulf Dahlen, Ostersund SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, San Jose)

1970 - Raekwon, American rapper

1975 - Jason Freese, American musician

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Famous Deaths

1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)

1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)

1829 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55

1991 - Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77

2003 - Maurice Gibb, guitarist of the Bee Gees, dies of cardiac arrest at 53

2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)

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