Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 03, 2015)

Particularly Worrying



Fill in the sentence below so that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example, given "The ____ was closing in, making his ____ harder but through his ____ of contacts he was able to evade the police." you would fill in NET, WORK, and NETWORK.



The ____ count in the imported food was particularly worrying as there weren't ____ holes in the packaging, which had been shipped from ____.





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Brain Teaser 3/2/2015

Two Trick Teasers



1. If you started boring a hole through the earth from New York, where would you exit?



2. A man walks into a his bathroom and shoots himself right between the eyes using a real gun with real bullets. He walks out alive, with no blood anywhere. And no, he didn't miss and he wasn't Superman or any other caped crusader. How did he do this?

Solution

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Wearable Technology - It's All Here

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After a video that went viral in 2012 showing a bus monitor getting bullied…

After a video that went viral in 2012 showing a bus monitor getting bullied by students – a Canadian man set up a fundraiser to collect $5,000 for a vacation for her. In the end, they ended up collecting and giving the women over $700,000. She has since retired.

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After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmarks Jewish population…

After Hitler ordered the deportation of Denmark’s Jewish population, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.

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During the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues…

During the Chernobyl Disaster, Aleksandr Lelechenko saved his colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times in place of his younger colleagues. He died less than 2 weeks after the disaster.

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75% of Japanese homes have a hi-tech toilet and the latest models eliminate…

75% of Japanese homes have a hi-tech toilet and the latest models eliminate the need for TP, keep you warm, check your blood pressure, play running-water sounds to increase privacy and open and close automatically so you don’t have to touch anything.

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Vikings used ravens to navigate. They brought ravens aboard their ships…

Vikings used ravens to navigate. They brought ravens aboard their ships, then released them and sailed in the same direction to find land. The raven was so important to them that it became the symbol on their flag.

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Bill Haast, known as “Snake Man,” was bitten by venomous snakes more than…

Bill Haast, known as “Snake Man,” was bitten by venomous snakes more than 170 times. By injecting himself with snake venom daily for over 60 years, he saved countless lives with his antibody rich blood. He lived to be 100.

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George Reeves, the actor who played Superman in the 1950s was wary because…

George Reeves, the actor who played Superman in the 1950s was wary because some fans tried to test his “invulnerability.” At one appearance a young fan pulled a pistol on him. Reeves convinced him to hand over the gun by telling him that a bystander could be hurt when the bullets bounced off

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According to Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967…

According to Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, you can be arrested for a crime committed anywhere in the known universe.

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Today in History for 2nd March 2015

Historical Events

1925 - Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament

1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747

1986 - 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita

1991 - Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history

1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)

2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1938 - Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire

1940 - Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (S Afr Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)

1950 - Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)

1955 - Steve Small, cricketer (stalwart NSW opening batsman)

1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)

1983 - Glen Perkins, American baseball player

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)

1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)

1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)

1986 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56

1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62

2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)

More Famous Deaths »

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