Think your husband is delicious? Well, Praying Mantis’ do! After a female and a male mate, the female eats the male. They first bite the head off and eat it completely.
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Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Brain Teaser 4/9/2014
My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I?
Solution
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We Have Your SLINGO ...Play Today!
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My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I?
Solution
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We Have Your SLINGO ...Play Today!
from A Daily Brain Teaser http://ift.tt/1hrFNOD
3d wooden brain teasers from craftypuzzles.com
Today in History for 9th April 2014
Historical Events
1918 - Latvia proclaims independence
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1954 - WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1984 - 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall and Shirley Maclaine win
1997 - Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion
Famous Birthdays
1498 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, England, pioneered study of motion, photography
1926 - Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)
1932 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut
1961 - Kirk McCaskill, Kapuskasing Ont, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1974 - Ben Bordelon, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
Famous Deaths
715 - Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies
1681 - Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
1931 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
1976 - Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
1996 - Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
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How many rodent hairs do you prefer in your peanut butter?…
How many rodent hairs do you prefer in your peanut butter? The FDA gives the thumbs up if there is no more than one in every 100 grams of your food. Disguised as “natural contaminants,” rodent hair and bug parts are not only in your food, but they are approved to be there. Apparently eating bug legs and mouse hair is safer than using chemicals to control the pests in food making facilities.
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When developing the Macintosh computer, Steve Jobs wanted…
When developing the Macintosh computer, Steve Jobs wanted to add a small mysterious character who would appear after about every 1000 times you used an operating system’s user interface element. He would wink at you and disappear so fast that you wouldn’t be sure he was real.
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On 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army…
On 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
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In 1988, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years…
In 1988, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years for killing two gay men instead of life requested by the prosecutor. He justified it by stating “I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level … and I’d be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”
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