Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 10, 2015)

Back and Forth



Fill in the blank below with a word that means the same as the word on the left when read normally and fits the definition on the right when read backwards.



Friends _________ hit sharply.



Rinds of fruit __________ What we do with over one third of our lives.





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Brain Teaser 2/9/2015

1. A word I know, Six letters it contains, Subtract just one, And twelve is what remains.



2. Most of us use it every day in our homes. If we purchased 100 pounds of it, it would contain approximately 87 pounds of water; 4 pounds of fat; 4 pounds of casein, ash and albumin; and 5 pounds of sugar. What is it?



3. Is the number of people in the world who have shaken hands with an odd number of people odd or even?

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Nissan.com is not owned by the car company, but by a single guy named…

Nissan.com is not owned by the car company, but by a single guy named Uzi Nissan. He has been fighting the car company in court since 1999.

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A researcher accidentally killed one of the oldest trees ever…

A researcher accidentally killed one of the oldest trees ever (nicknamed “Prometheus”) in 1964. He got a tree corer stuck. A park ranger helped him to cut the tree down and remove the tool. Eventually, when he counted the tree rings, he realized that the felled tree was almost 5,000 years old.

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The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Japan…

The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Japan. In 1912, Japan sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.

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Below the huge Moscow metro system, there is another secret system called Metro…

Below the huge Moscow metro system, there is another secret system called Metro 2, closed off to the public and reportedly connects several giant bunkers and underground cities.

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Today in History for 9th February 2015

Historical Events

1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president

1940 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1956 - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast

1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)

1979 - UK Football club Nottingham Forest makes £1m transfer deal

1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)

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Famous Birthdays

1887 - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)

1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)

1914 - Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner

1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer

1958 - Sandy Lyle, British golfer

1968 - Derek Strong, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Orlando Magic)

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Famous Deaths

1670 - Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60

1977 - Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59

1993 - Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies

1995 - J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89

1998 - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95

2013 - Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist, dies at 99

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