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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Crowdie is a special Scottish cheese called ‘gruth’ in Gaelic. The Vikings were the first to start making it and these traditional methods are still used in Scotland. A field of cows once escaped and ate wild garlic causing the taste of their milk to change – it is now called ‘garlic crowdie’!
The game show Jeopardy was on air for 52 years! Not anyone can play it, you have to have a good variety of general knowledge to be able to participate! Many find the game "too intellectual" but that is because the questions get harder and harder!
Most languages have so many words, usually more than 50,000! However, on average, people only use a few hundred words in daily conversation! Why not try challenging yourself to use a more varied vocabulary next time you engage in conversation!
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Crowdie is a special Scottish cheese called ‘gruth’ in Gaelic. The Vikings were the first to start making it and these traditional methods are still used in Scotland. A field of cows once escaped and ate wild garlic causing the taste of their milk to change – it is now called ‘garlic crowdie’!
The game show Jeopardy was on air for 52 years! Not anyone can play it, you have to have a good variety of general knowledge to be able to participate! Many find the game "too intellectual" but that is because the questions get harder and harder!
Most languages have so many words, usually more than 50,000! However, on average, people only use a few hundred words in daily conversation! Why not try challenging yourself to use a more varied vocabulary next time you engage in conversation!
It is believed that a language, or a dialect, goes extinct every two weeks. There are more than 230 completely extinct languages and 2,400 of the world’s languages are considered to be in danger of going extinct. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world and has over 50,000 characters!
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