Kids who try to act cool in their early teens are more likely…

Kids who try to act cool in their early teens are more likely to have alcohol and relationship problems later in life.

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The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus…

The Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.

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There is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet…

There is a man trying to get a new letter in to the alphabet to replace the word “the”.

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Brain Teaser 2/4/2015

WHAT KIND?



1. What kind of water never freezes?



2. What kind of rocks are on the bottom of the Mississippi River?



3. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?



4. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?

Solution

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Today in History for 4th February 2015

Historical Events

1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa

1913 - National Institute of Arts and Letters founded

1962 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt

1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

1968 - "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances

1994 - 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins

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Famous Birthdays

1910 - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer

1914 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)

1958 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer

1968 - Marko Matvere, Estonian actor

1978 - Laurence Borremans, Miss Belgium Universe (1997)

1982 - Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist

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Famous Deaths

1505 - Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40

1896 - Henry David Leslie, composer, dies at 73

1928 - Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74

1982 - Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness), dies at 73 of a heart attack

1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)

1994 - Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 04, 2015)

Differently Not Pointless



Our usage dates back a long, long way. While among the first tools, our prototypes were bone and plant. Today we are usually made of steel.



We are related by design but not purposes, though sometimes we work well together, especially in the holding business.



We have relatives of different shapes and sizes. A hollow one is a real sticker and our Chinese cousins can be all over you.



In Great Britain we are a popular name for a pricking or tingling sensation, and to be on us in the U.S. is to be in a state of excessive uneasiness.





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Dolly Parton thinks it is so important that every child has books to read…

Dolly Parton thinks it is so important that every child has books to read that she started a foundation that will mail children a free age-appropriate book every month from birth to their 5th birthday.

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