Friday 5 June 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 06, 2015)

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Give Us A Hand

Inside we’re wet and outside we’re dry

But the weather we do not defy

Losing our heads, we don’t go berserk

But this is when we do our best work

Some of us activate with a click

Although human power makes us tick

We’re instruments not found in a band

We’re useless unless given a hand

What are we?

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jun 06, 2015)

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Aussie Slang
Australia, like many other areas, has its own unique blend of slang words derived from a common language, English. How many of these words and their meanings do you know?

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Obeisance

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o-bei-sance

noun :: A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage. Obedience.

“Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he, But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door– Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door– Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” –Poe, Edgar Allan

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Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”…

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Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”, warning hotel staff to never open it. After his death in 1943 the box was pried open and found to contain nothing but harmless old electrical components.

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In 1968 a man built an island off the coast of Italy and declared himself…

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In 1968 a man built an island off the coast of Italy and declared himself the President. He ran a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub, and a post office on the island. The Italian government didn’t like this, seized control of the island, and literally blew it up the next year.

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A Russian scientist, Alexander Bogdanov, hoped to achieve everlasting life…

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A Russian scientist, Alexander Bogdanov, hoped to achieve everlasting life, by transfusing blood with others who were younger than him. Later, he died after transfusing a student with malaria, who made a full recovery after the transfusion. Recent studies show he may have been onto something.

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There are Shabbat elevators in areas of large Jewish population…

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There are Shabbat elevators in areas of large Jewish population in Israel, the United States, Canada and Ukraine. These elevators stop at every floor so that Jews won’t have to press buttons on the Sabbath since pressing buttons is considered ‘doing work’.

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Man With Creepy Long Arm Illusion

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Here on Mighty Optical Illusions, we love hearing from our loyal followers! (And our newbies—don’t get me wrong!) We especially love it when they giv us a heads up on new illusions that we’ve never seen before. After all, it can be tough finding new illusions after several years.

Today’s illusion comes from a Facebook fan, and it’s a pretty awesome one!

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Is it just me, or does it look like that guy in the background has a really creepy long arm?? I know! It blew my mind a little when I first saw the photo! If you cover the woman on the eft with your hand, it’s even creepier looking! Since you don’t see the second person in the foreground, it really does look like the guy in the background has a super long arm.

Of course, if you look at this photo a little closer, you can see that the man in the background isn’t a freak of nature with a 10 foot arm. Instead, the hand on the woman’s shoulder actually belongs to the woman on the right. The angle of the camera, though, creates a fun optical illusion!

Did you like this photo illusion? Maybe you can figure out who’s hugging whom?

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Does it bring the own bottle?

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Please mixer.

Photo courtesy of Justin Egli.
T-shirt found in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Historical Events for 5th June 2015

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1632 – Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
1870 – Constantinople fire; 900 die
1900 – Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller
1945 – Benjamin Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes” premieres in London
1968 – 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
1969 – Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1969 – Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
1970 – KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1980 – Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1998 – “The Truman Show”, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released

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