Tricky Teasers - Freakish Facts



Set 5


Answer 3


    Only something approaching the speed of light would suffice and Burnham's new car can't manage that. The 3 hours and 30 minutes he allowed has already expired.


Freakish Facts


    A Malaysian family unwittingly drank soup made from their maid's knickers boiled in water from the toilet. When finally found out, the maid said that it was a magic recipe designed to make her employers like her.

Chinese criminals have been making a good living by digging up female corpses and selling them for over £2,000 each to relatives of deceased single men as "wives" so that the men can settle down properly in the spirit world.

After a speeding vehicle crashed into their garden wall, Dale and Nadine Thain, of California, Norfolk, constructed their own mock Gatso (Police speed) camera from old shelving mounted on a drainpipe. It had the desired effect of reducing excess traffic speed on the 40 mph road.

43 prisoners at the Aktubinsk penal colony in Kazakhstan tried to disembowel themselves with shoehorns in a mass protest against movement restrictions. They succeeded only in inflicting minor injuries.


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(C) David 2/9/2007

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