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While sitting down (or standing if you have good balance), lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it. At the same time, repeatedly draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction and without an awful lot of practice, there's nothing you can do to prevent it.

You're standing on the edge of an ocean with a high powered rifle and a ball. The ocean is smooth and there is no wind. Holding the rifle level with the ground six feet high, you fire a bullet out to sea. The very instant the bullet leaves the barrel you drop the ball from the same height as the rifle. Which will hit the water first, the bullet or the ball?

Answer: The ball will hit first. The curvature of the earth will cause the bullet to travel farther down, even though they both drop at the same rate of speed.

Pick any number between 1 and 100,000 (maybe the last four or five digits of your phone number).

Multiply it by 2.

Add 5.

Multiply the answer by 50.

If you have already had your birthday this year add 1754, if not add 1753*.

Subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should see now your original number followed by your age.

*1754 and 1753 work for the year 2004. Add 1 for each year after this, for example in 2005 use 1755 and 1754.

1. Ask someone or a group: Spell the word 'silk'. (They should spell out the letters: S, I, L, K.)

Then ask them: What do cows drink?

2. Ask someone or a group: Spell the word 'coast' (They should spell out the letters: C, O, A, S, T.)

Then ask them: What do you put into a toaster?

Did they say 'milk' and toast? The answers are 'water' and 'bread'.