We've done a few puzzles in the area lately that have had people scratching their heads (or at least it seems that way to us). We thought that we'd do an easy/fun one for a change. After this, it's back to the old way, though!
The degrees and minutes are correct, solve the puzzle for the fractional part of the minutes.
- A wealthy Toronto lawyer bequeathed his estate to whichever woman gave birth to the most babies in the ten-year period following his death.
- The only real person ever depicted on a PEZ candy dispenser was Betsy Ross.
- The Nobel Foundation does not confer a prize for achievement in mathematics because the man who established it, Alfred Nobel, was upset that his wife was carrying on an affair with an eminent mathematician.
- A junior high school student won a science fair by circulating a report about the dangers of 'dihydrogen monoxide.'
- A 76-year-old man died after the ambulance stretcher he was strapped to rolled down a grade and overturned, the Allegheny County coroner's office said. Edward Juchniewicz of Canonsburg was being transported from a nursing home to a doctor's office for an appointment. The ambulance attendants left the stretcher in the parking lot at the doctor's office and went to talk with the doctor's staff, authorities said. The cot rolled away and turned over, injuring the man in the head, the coroner's office said.
- We use only ten percent of our brains.
- Thanks to the Coriolis effect, toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern.
- The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.
- Research shows that microwaving foods in plastic containers releases cancer-causing agents into the foods.
- Mold that forms in pancake mix can cause a life-threatening allergic reaction.
- The consumption of poppy seeds used on bagels and muffins can produce positive results on drug screening tests.
- The nursery rhyme 'Ring Around the Rosie' is a coded reference to the Black Plague.
- FBI agents holed up in a psychiatric hospital attempted to order pizzas from an incredulous delivery man.
- The AIDS virus was created by the CIA.
- An American flag should be burned if it has been allowed to touch the ground.
- Camel-hunting is specifically prohibited by law in Arizona.
- California law requires state residents to obtain hunting licenses before setting mousetraps.
- The 1989 film Back to the Future II correctly predicted that the Florida Marlins would win the 1997 World Series.
- Future Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators baseball team.
- Historically, more collect phone calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day of the year.
- The New York Yankees invented pinstriped uniforms in an effort to disguise Babe Ruth's girth.
- Rice thrown to wish newly-wedded couples well can kill birds.
- The Texas legislature once passed a resolution honoring the Boston Strangler.
- A standard college regulation specifies that a student whose roommate commits suicide automatically receive a 4.0 grade point average for the current school term.