Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 19, 2015)

What Time is It?



On a clock, the big and small hand are exactly between 1 and 2. Both hands lie on top of each other.



What time is it?





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In “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested…

In “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that to portray an Android well he shouldn’t blink. Osment does not blink once during the entire film.

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When Samuel Adams received a female slave as a wedding gift…

When Samuel Adams received a female slave as a wedding gift, he insisted that “a slave can not live in my house; if she comes she must be free.” He was able to free her after years of writing emancipation papers, and treated her as an equal family member throughout that time.

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Alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception…

Alcohol is prohibited in the British Parliament with one exception: the chancellor can drink while delivering the annual budget statement.

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Brain Teaser 1/18/2015

Very few people bother to determine what an amazing potential for overpopulation they have. Let us consider yours. If you and your wife have a meager two children, it would seem you are not adding much to the world. But let's suppose that in 5 years each of your children has two children. In another 25 years, each grandchild has two kids. In another 25 years, each great-grandchild has two offspring-and so on for a thousand years. How many descendants would you have?

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Today in History for 18th January 2015

Historical Events

336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope

1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies

1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)

1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)

1971 - Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling

1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia

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Famous Birthdays

1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer, (d. 1852)

1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)

1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer

1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)

1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)

1977 - Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player

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Famous Deaths

1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84

1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13

1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84

1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 20

1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82

2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)

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