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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Have you ever wondered where the word 'alphabet' comes from? Well, the word's origin isn't too crazy or original. It comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta.
Thanks to a law against gluttony by Oliver Cromwell, it’s still technically illegal to eat Christmas pudding on Christmas day! He put the law into place and it was never repealed. Luckily its almost never enforced.
Before the film franchise took off, there has been a made-for-TV adaptation of “Casino Royale”. The 1954 production depicted Bond as an American who prefers to be called “Jimmy”. Hard to imagine, since 007 has become a staple of quintessential Britishness...
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Have you ever wondered where the word 'alphabet' comes from? Well, the word's origin isn't too crazy or original. It comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta.
Thanks to a law against gluttony by Oliver Cromwell, it’s still technically illegal to eat Christmas pudding on Christmas day! He put the law into place and it was never repealed. Luckily its almost never enforced.
Before the film franchise took off, there has been a made-for-TV adaptation of “Casino Royale”. The 1954 production depicted Bond as an American who prefers to be called “Jimmy”. Hard to imagine, since 007 has become a staple of quintessential Britishness...
This is pretty cool. Scientists in Germany have concluded that peanut butter can be turned into diamonds because it is so rich in carbon. All one would have to do is extract the oxygen from the carbon dioxide and then apply immense pressure on the carbon left behind. And then voila! Diamonds!
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