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Saturday, 21 June 2014

Brain Teaser 6/21/2014

1. If the date of the last Saturday of last month and the first Sunday of this month do not add up to 33, what month are we in?

2. Jason decided to give his bike 3 coats of paint. Which coat would go on the first?

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Today in History for 21st June 2014

Historical Events

1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht

1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa

1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000

1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham

2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

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Famous Birthdays

1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)

1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa

1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)

1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)

1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician

1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)

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Famous Deaths

1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)

1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies

1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies

1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49

1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)

2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)

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Friday, 20 June 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 21, 2014)

Can I, Dad?

Boy: Can I dig a hole?

Dad: Well sure, why not?

Boy: Can I climb a tree?

Dad: Yes, sir!

Boy: Can I jump off the roof?

Dad: Of course!

Boy: Can I fly in the sky?

Dad: Yes, son, you can!

Boy: Can I go into space?!

Dad: Erm. No, I'm sorry, son. You can't do that.

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Midget Man Optical Illusion

Happy Friday everyone, and let the weekend begin! Got any plans for the weekend, and if you don’t, then now is the time to start planning! People usually do things with their families during the weekend, which is exactly what today’s optical illusion is all about! See this lovely family posing for a photograph? See the guy behind the family? What does it look like to you because it can look like any number of things.

What do you see? The most obvious answer to this question is that the man behind the family is actually riding on the back of one of the family members. However, what else does it look like because it can also look like a family of giants took a vacation! What do you all think of this picture because it is rather hilarious to see this tiny man riding on the back of a giant?

Ready for another cool optical illusion? Check out these amazing shadow illusions. Are they real? Could a giant pile of garbage really be manipulated enough to look that much like people, or is the artist trying to pull a fast one? You take a close look at this collection of shadow illusion and decide for yourself!

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