Are there extra dimensions? Can we detect them? These questions and more to be answered by experiments conducted inside the world's largest machine... if it doesn't first create a black hole that swallows the earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Problem: Drunk British tourists in Switzerland are stealing kids' sleds and riding them down the streets, injuring locals.

Solution: Help them go faster. 85mph faster.

Caspar Badrutt, we salute you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Badrutt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge

"English guests began adapting delivery boys' sleds for recreation, which led to collisions with pedestrians as they sped down the lanes and alleys of the village. This had two outcomes: in the short term the guests began to devise methods of steering the sleds, and so invented the skeleton (head first, prone), the luge (feet first, supine), and the two- and four-man bobsleighs. In the long term, in the interests of pedestrian safety, he built a special track for his guests' activities — the world's first "half-pipe", in about 1870. The track is still in use today"

Give me some bubble gum, a stopwatch, mayonnaise, and a bible ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

Words that sound the same but have completely different meanings in other languages ...

"The Bart, The"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friends

"With millions, if not thousands, of devout worshippers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs."

—Bobby Henderson, Prophet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster