Mental Floss 209
The answer to last week’s challenge is, Q: What is it that goes on 4 legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and 3 legs in the evening? This is the famous riddle of the Sphinx which was asked of Oedipus before he could enter the city of Thebes.
A: Man. Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult and uses a walking stick in old age.
This week’s challenge is:
Q: A large mail order company undertook an analysis of it’s customer base. They were surprised to see that a there was an unusually high number of people who were born on November 11. How could this be?
The answer along with a new challenge, next week.
Have an excellent weekend!
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