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Brain Teaser of the Day

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You are diagnosed with a deadly disease and are prescribed 2 different sets of pills. You must take only one of each pill every day to survive. If you take two of the same pill, you grow a tail and die a painful death. But silly you! With only two days left on your prescription, you accidentally drop your four remaining pills and they get mixed up.The pills are completely unmarked and look exactly the same. You have no way of telling the pills apart.

How do you make sure you take the correct medication?

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On This Day in History – April 10, 1866

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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded

On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City, marking a significant milestone in the history of animal welfare in the United States.

The organization was the brainchild of Henry Bergh, a 54-year-old philanthropist and diplomat, who was moved by the cruel treatment of animals he witnessed during his travels and diplomatic postings.

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Reading Between the Lines – ‘Moby Dick’

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To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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On This Day in History – April 9, 1865

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General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate States of America, signed a treaty of surrender at Appomattox Court House

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, signed a treaty of surrender at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, effectively bringing an end to the American Civil War. This momentous event marked the culmination of a series of battles and campaigns that had left Lee’s once-formidable army depleted and exhausted, unable to continue the fight against the overwhelming forces of the Union Army under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant.

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Reading Between the Lines – ‘Meditations by Marcus Aurelius’

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“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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