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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A dog’s sense of smell is simply amazing: Our canine friends can smell a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in two Olympic swimming pools. That’s thanks to the 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses – humans have a measly six million...
‘Jeopardy!’ is king. The show has outlived over 400 other game shows in nearly four decades since its reprisal in 1984. There are about 230 new episodes produced in a single year, with 46 days of taping, and five tapings a day. This means that the show has over 7,000 episodes!
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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A dog’s sense of smell is simply amazing: Our canine friends can smell a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in two Olympic swimming pools. That’s thanks to the 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses – humans have a measly six million...
‘Jeopardy!’ is king. The show has outlived over 400 other game shows in nearly four decades since its reprisal in 1984. There are about 230 new episodes produced in a single year, with 46 days of taping, and five tapings a day. This means that the show has over 7,000 episodes!
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!
It is customary in Japan to eat every single grain of rice, right down to the very last one. Such was its traditional importance that it was considered an affront to the Shinto to waste even a single grain. Think about that next time your eyes prove too big for you stomach.
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