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Sunday, 6 July 2014

Brain Teaser 7/04/2014

1. Hanger is to closet as tree is to:

Branch - Bushes - Forest - Ground - Nest

2. You can spin, wheel and twist, but this thing can turn without moving. What is it?

Solution

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Wife selling was a traditional English practice for ending an unsatisfactory…

Wife selling was a traditional English practice for ending an unsatisfactory marriage. Instead of dealing with an expensive and dragged-out divorce, a husband would take his wife to market and parade her with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, before publicly auctioning her to the highest bidder.

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Europeans traditionally swam the breaststroke, while Native Americans swam…

Europeans traditionally swam the breaststroke, while Native Americans swam the front crawl. When two Native Americans won an 1844 swimming competition in England, newspapers criticized their barbaric, “un-European” form. Europeans refused to use the faster front crawl for decades.

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Mary Tyler Moore once offered a restaurant $1000 for a 65 year-old lobster…

Mary Tyler Moore once offered a restaurant $1000 for a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.

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Today in History for 6th July 2014

Historical Events

1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

1946 - 60th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4)

1962 - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria

1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms

1990 - After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game and loses 2-0

1997 - Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1668 - Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist

1884 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)

1946 - Rick Hunter, actor

1971 - Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96)

1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor

1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)

1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)

1971 - Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies

1992 - Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies

1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)

2009 - Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)

More Famous Deaths »

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Saturday, 5 July 2014

Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 06, 2014)

Prefers Soap

In the following sentence, fill in the blanks with three words that are the same except for their first letters.

The ___ would ___ ___ with soap than with body wash.

Check Braingle.com for the answer.

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