Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 16, 2015)

The River



Two people come to a river. There is a boat, however it can carry one person only. How can they each get to the other side of the river using the boat?





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The Boy with the Butterfly Eye Optical Illusion

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Thursday, which is the favorite day of the week for some of you! It’s terribly cold outside right now, but spring will be here soon, and then you all can get outside and into the warm weather. Spring is great because everything blooms again, and the butterflies come out to play. Speaking pf butterflies, check out this boy with a butterfly eye! Is this a medical condition, or did a really big butterfly just happen to land right on his face? The optical illusion is funny because the butterfly landed just perfectly, so the boy looks like he has a butterfly eye!

Ready for another natural illusion? Check out this man who is getting his cigarette lit from the most natural source there is, the sun! Is this a perfectly timed optical illusion or is the sun just trying to be very helpful? Though no matter what it is, you have to admit that the illusion is pretty cool, and the person that took this picture has great timing! Its pretty cold outside right now, so we hope you all are careful driving to work, and just think, tomorrow is Friday so you only have one more day of work!

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Brain Teaser 1/15/2015

In this type of verse, "first" and "second" and so on refer to the individual letters of a word. Find the correct letter for each definition or explanation, and complete the word.

My first is in sugar but not in tea

My second in swim but not in sea

My third in apple and also pear

My fourth in ring and also hare

My last in ten but not in herd

My whole a very complimentary word.

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Brain Teaser 1/14/2015

Two For Today



1. Joe said to his friend at a New Year's Eve Party, "Yesterday I was twenty, but next year I will be twenty-two." When is Joe's birthday?



2. What is the next number in this series;

18, 46, 94, 63, 52, ?

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Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, may surely be one of the most famous psychiatric…

Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital, may surely be one of the most famous psychiatric institutions in the world. its been around since 1247 and is infamous as a lunatic asylum. In the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare at the lunatics. For a penny one could peer into their cells, view the freaks of the “show of Bethlehem” and laugh at their antics, generally of a sexual nature or violent fights. Entry was free on the first Tuesday of the month. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 such visits.

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Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough…

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people. First hydrogen has to turn into helium (in a star), then the helium has to turn into even heavier elements (also in a star), then the heavier elements need to turn into a planet (after the star explodes), then that planet has to produce life (through abiogenesis(we’re actually not quite sure how this specifically happened on earth), and then that life has to turn into people (through evolution).

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Between 2010-2012, DNA testing found that over half of fish labeled and sold…

Between 2010-2012, DNA testing found that over half of fish labeled and sold as “Tuna” in the USA was NOT tuna. 87% of Red Snapper sold were also found to be completely mislabeled.

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Plants are able to think, remember and react to information…

Plants are able to think, remember and react to information contained in light.

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On July 6, 1967, the Alvin Submersible was attacked by a swordfish…

On July 6, 1967, the Alvin Submersible was attacked by a swordfish, which became lodged in the skin of the sub. The crew made an emergency surface, recovered the fish, and ate it for dinner.

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The Pentagon is developing a “combat chewing gum” to help soldiers maintain…

The Pentagon is developing a “combat chewing gum” to help soldiers maintain dental hygiene in the field. It is expected to save the Army $100million per year in dental services.

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Engineers have already managed to design a machine that can make…

Engineers have already managed to design a machine that can make a better version of itself. In a simple test, they couldn’t even understand how the final iteration worked.

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Today in History for 15th January 2015

Historical Events

1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)

1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1962 - Dutch and Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea

1971 - Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt

1990 - ATandT experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch

2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.

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Famous Birthdays

1845 - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)

1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)

1916 - Mikki Doyle, journalist

1968 - Bob Dahl, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)

1969 - Rod de Highden, Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)

1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor

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Famous Deaths

1208 - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered

1968 - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80

1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)

1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52

2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)

2011 - Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)

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