Speaking club. LangLab MSU

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Danetka 1
• A man and his wife raced through the streets. They stopped, and the husband
got out of the car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a
stranger in the car

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Danetka 1
Answer
• The wife was about to have a baby. They drove to the hospital. The husband
left to get a wheelchair, but the baby was born in the meantime, and the wife
didn't survive the birth.

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Danetka 2
• In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are floating in the water
nearby.

Danetka 2
Answer
• A group of people were on an ocean voyage in a yacht. One day, they decided
to go swimming so they put on their swimsuits and dove off the side. They
discovered belatedly that they have forgotten to put a ladder down the side of
the yacht and were unable to climb back in, so they drowned

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Danetka 3
• A man lies in bed trying to sleep. He picks up a phone and makes a call. Waits
for a while and hangs up without getting an answer. And sleeps peacefully.

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Danetka 3
Answer
• The man's neighbor was snoring and he decided to wake him up by calling the
phone. As soon as the snoring stopped, the man hung up and fell asleep.

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Danetka 4
• Every day he paints his lips with green lipstick. But almost no one notices this

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Danetka 4
Answer
• In the 20th century, when television was still black and white, cameras used
red filters that absorbed the red color in the image, so red lipstick did not set
off the lips. Therefore, the announcers on television, when putting on makeup,
for expressiveness, had to paint their lips with green lipstick

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Danetka 5
• The German police are completely confused. For 15 years now, the same
person has been committing thefts, murders and thefts. By 2008, they had
spent 14,000 working hours and more than 15 million euros to find the
perpetrator, but they never found him. How is it possible?

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Danetka 5
Answer
• The main suspect was a woman whose DNA was found at every site. But it
was not possible to find her.
• These cases took place throughout Germany, and sometimes beyond its
borders - in France and Austria.
• In 2009, the police finally found a 71-year-old Polish woman who worked for
many years as a packer of cotton swabs in a Bavarian factory. The factory
produced many DNA test sticks which were used in police investigations.

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Danetka 6
• George was late for math class and misunderstood the teacher. Because of
this, he received an award and recognition! What happened?

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Danetka 6
Answer
• The American mathematician George Danzig was once very late for a class
and, seeing the tasks on the board, decided that this was a homework
assignment. It took him several days to solve and eventually he found the
answers. As it turned out, he found the key to two “unsolvable” problems that
many mathematicians struggled with.

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