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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It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!
P Diddy, changes his stage name all the time. He was known as "Puffy" when he was a kid, then he went by "Puff Daddy" as a label head and artist in the 1990s. By 2005, he reemerged as "P. Diddy,"
The Dutch city of Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras. Pretty clever, huh?
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It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!
P Diddy, changes his stage name all the time. He was known as "Puffy" when he was a kid, then he went by "Puff Daddy" as a label head and artist in the 1990s. By 2005, he reemerged as "P. Diddy,"
The Dutch city of Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110th birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras. Pretty clever, huh?
A linguistically diverse American city, Los Angeles is home to people from more than 140 countries speaking over 200 different languages. Its multicultural regional spots include Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Ethiopia, Thai Town, and more.