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This year, Farmer Stone's harvest of apples was quite significant.

He decided to donate some of the apples to the local community, 1,672 people in all.

Every person aged 50 or more received 16 apples, and every person under 50 received 96 apples.

Only ³/₄ of the over 50s collected their apples, and only ¹/₈ of the under 50s collected theirs.

How many apples did the farmer give away?

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Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:

During the recent BrainBashers aquatic contest, the walrus struggled to finish, the sea lion finished second, and the penguin easily won!

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Starting with BALL, change one letter at a time until you have the word HEAD.

Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word.

What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?

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Disastrous Dave was washing windows on a multi-storey office building when he took a fall off a fifty foot ladder, directly onto the concrete pavement below.

Amazingly, Dave didn't get hurt at all.

How can this be possible?

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