Charles Darrow developed Monopoly in 1933. When he sold the game to Parker Brothers, the cards were handwritten, and the houses were made from wooden molding scraps.
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If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions. English DJ Stuart Maconie, came up with the urban myth that David Bowie had created Connect Four…
Good news for the women out there. According to researchers, a mother’s genes determine the intelligence of a child. Scientists say that the cleverness gene is carried by the X chromosome.
‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
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If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions. English DJ Stuart Maconie, came up with the urban myth that David Bowie had created Connect Four…
Good news for the women out there. According to researchers, a mother’s genes determine the intelligence of a child. Scientists say that the cleverness gene is carried by the X chromosome.
‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
English is widely spoken around the world, and so it shouldn't come as surprise to learn that it is also the most taught language. Alongside English, however, French is also taught in every country! Now, that's surprising!
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