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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Marie Antoinette was known to love hot chocolate. It was served frequently at the Palace of Versailles. At the time, it was believed that the steaming hot drink would also serve as an aphrodisiac.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
There are over 17 million articles on Wikipedia, making it the largest encyclopedia put together, taking the crown away from the Yongle encyclopedia, which had held the record for 600 years! In order to keep the entries up-to-date, there have been over one billion edits on Wikipedia!
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Marie Antoinette was known to love hot chocolate. It was served frequently at the Palace of Versailles. At the time, it was believed that the steaming hot drink would also serve as an aphrodisiac.
Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.
There are over 17 million articles on Wikipedia, making it the largest encyclopedia put together, taking the crown away from the Yongle encyclopedia, which had held the record for 600 years! In order to keep the entries up-to-date, there have been over one billion edits on Wikipedia!
Pokémon were once featured on a spendable currency! In the isolated Pacific island of Niue, specific Niue dollar coins were released in 2011 with the faces of Charmander, Meowth, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and of course, Pikachu.
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