Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hey, Sherlock, wake up. Yes, I'm addressing you. Stop dozing off before your phone screen. Let's do some brain training while there are no cases to deal with. Yeah, put on that sleuth hat and let's go. In the city where people are keen on brain teasers and riddles, 4% of people don't list their phone numbers. So if we select 40 random people from the phone directory, how many of them will have unlisted numbers? The answer may make you indignant. You open your math school books after all, but it 0%. If the numbers of these 40 people are in the phone directory, they are already listed by default. Your friend asked you for a favor and gives you $5 asking to buy something to eat, something to drink, something to feed his cow weather and something to plant in his garden. At the same time, you're allowed to buy just one thing. What are you going to buy? You can go and buy a watermelon. You can eat it, you can drink it. You can feed the cow with rides, and as for the watermelon seeds, you can easily plant them in the garden Lucas lived in Paris, but he didn't like the Eiffel Tower. So every day he ate his dinner in the Onley place where it couldn't be seen. What was this place? Lucas always had dinner in a cafe at the base of the tower. An egg has to fall 100 feet, but you can't let it break. You can't slow down its fall or cushion its landing. How can you do it? Drop the egg from a height greater than 100 feet and it won't break for the 1st 100 feet. Pete called his wife and said he'd be home by eight. He arrived at 805 They had no special plans. But his wife was still angry that he was late. Can you guess why she was so mad? The answer is pretty simple. There are 28 o'clock every day. Pete should have returned at 8 p.m. But he came home at 805 a. M. The next day. No wonder she got so mad. Brendan sat in a coffee shop and found a fly in his drink. How disgusting! He asked the waiter to bring him another coffee after receiving the new cup and taking a sip, he became angry. Brendan realized that it was the same cup of coffee he had in the first place. How did he know that it was the same cup of coffee? It doesn't take a coffee expert to get this one right. The second coffee was already sweetened. Brendan had put sugar in his first cup before finding the fly. Okay, let's imagine you don't know what an elephant looks like. One day you're going on a safari to watch animals with your friends. One of them points out a rhino and tells you it's an elephant. The other shows you a hippo and claims that it's an elephant. Who will you believe and why? The task was to imagine that you didn't know what an elephant looked like. Not that you didn't know what a hippo and a rhino are. It means you won't believe either of your friends. Boy with a couple of lying friends like these. Stan met a stranger he'd never seen before. Stan heard about him, but no descriptions of his appearance were ever mentioned. Nevertheless, stand understood immediately. Who The guy Waas? How is this possible? Well, some people just look more alike than others. Think I stand. Met was the twin brother of one of his friends. Sam is a truly special young lady. She was just 17 the day before yesterday. Next year she'll be 20 already. What's her secret? Sam's not a time traveler or anything. She was born on December 31st. So if today is January 1st, it's correct to say that she was 17 the day before yesterday. She turned 18 the next day she'll be 19 on the last day of this year, and next year she'll be 20. It's Fitness day at school, and all the kids ran the same distance. Each kid was ranked according to his or her own unique result. Billy turned out to be both the 50th fastest and the 50th slowest runner. How many kids air there at Billy School? Even though 100 sounds like a clear cut answer, it's actually 99. Billy is the 50th in the sequence from 1 to 50 of the fastest runners. If he's the 50th slowest, there has to be 99 runners rank from 50 to 99. Mrs. Smith went to the police claiming that her vintage necklace was missing. The woman was upset when the police arrived. They saw no signs of a break in know messed up locks. No misplaced doors. Only one window was broken. There was a total mess inside the house and dirty footprints all over the floor. Surprisingly, the next day, Mrs Smith was arrested for fraud. Why? The police were sure that Mrs Smith lied to them because the window was broken from the inside. If it had been broken from the outside, little pieces of glasses would have been on the room's floor. There are six glasses in a row on the table. The 1st 3 air filled with orange juice and the other three are empty. Sounds like I was there. Boy, was I thirsty? Okay. Never mind that your task is to make full and empty glasses. Alternate by moving just one glass. How can you do it? Take the second glass and pour the Jews in the fifth glass. You've been captured and kept in jail for several months. Would you? D'oh! Never mind. One day you managed to open yourself and get out into the hall. There are three exits. Ah, Huge, Vicious looking man guards. One of the the second has angry dogs. And in front of the third exit, there's a timer ticking down to an explosion in five minutes. Which exit will you choose? Hey, wait till the explosion is over and get out through the third exit, a tourist who didn't know English came up to the ticket counter at a New York subway station. One ticket cost 50 cents, and the man handed him $1. The ticketing clerk gave the tourist two tickets without even asking how many of them he wanted. How did she know? The tourists gave her 4/4 and she immediately realized that if he wanted just one ticket, he would have handed just 2/4. James escaped from prison and ran for the countryside. Suddenly, on a small, deserted road, he saw a police car heading right at him. James ran toward the car for some time, then turned and rushed into the woods. Why did he run toward the car? First? James was in the middle of a bridge when he saw the car. He had to run toward the vehicle to get off the bridge. One night, a bunch of thieves were stealing boxes with electronics from a warehouse and carrying them to their van when they heard a police car siren. But even though they didn't manage to avoid the police, they didn't get arrested. Why they started to carry the boxes back into the warehouse, pretending to be a late night delivery. A man is quickly coming up on an open field. He's got a bag with him. If he doesn't open the bag before he reaches the field, he's a gone er. What's so hazardous that's in this mysterious bag? Well, the man sky diving and in the bag, he has his parachute. Good luck with that. Two people who have never seen each other before meeting a store, start a conversation and go for a walk in the park. One of them is the father of the others daughter. How is all this possible? They're a couple, both blind from birth, so they have indeed never seen each other. A man carrying two bags with sand crosses the Mexican border on a bicycle every day. Customs officers regularly check the bags, and all the time they contain sand. It's obvious that the man smuggled something but the officers can't realize what it is exactly as they don't have any proof. The man crosses the border without interruptions. What is he smuggled? This creative individual distracts the customs officers attention with the bags of sand. But in fact, a smuggles bicycles. Newlyweds left for their honeymoon and asked their neighbor toe look after their house when they return. The woman found out that she had lost all her expensive jewelry because of a power outage. The woman had hidden her jewelry in a supposedly safe place. The house wasn't rob. The neighbor was an honest person. The jewelry got lost by accident. What the heck happened? The wife hitter jewelry in the freezer in a bag with frozen food? After the power failure, all the food spoiled. The kind hearted neighbor decided to help and threw away all the bad food together with the jewelry. Oh my goodness. Hey, if you learn something new today like, maybe don't hide your jewelry with the frozen succotash, then give the video alike and share it with a friend and hear some other videos. I think you'll enjoy.
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