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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Our Sun is a scorching hot ball of fire made of three quarters hydrogen and helium. Around 99.86% of the mass in our solar system is made up out of the Sun! Remarkably, the mass of the Sun is approximately 330,000 times that of our planet, Earth.
Do you like smothering your French fries in ketchup? You might not know it, but ketchup was actually once used to cure some medical ailments such as diarrhea and indigestion. A doctor in Ohio even once invented a concentrated ketchup pill!
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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Our Sun is a scorching hot ball of fire made of three quarters hydrogen and helium. Around 99.86% of the mass in our solar system is made up out of the Sun! Remarkably, the mass of the Sun is approximately 330,000 times that of our planet, Earth.
Do you like smothering your French fries in ketchup? You might not know it, but ketchup was actually once used to cure some medical ailments such as diarrhea and indigestion. A doctor in Ohio even once invented a concentrated ketchup pill!
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!
Alexander Hamilton lied about his age in order to support himself. He needed to find an apprenticeship when he was 13 years old and thought that if he said he was 11, he would have an easier time finding a position. He landed a job as a clerk and a few years later, his writing impressed so many people that he was sent to New York to be educated.
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