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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Kids can be quite inquisitive. A 2013 study from an online retailer recorded the questions that children ask the adults around them. On average, the adults answered nearly 300 questions per day! The hardest questions adults said they were asked included ‘Why is water wet?’ and ‘What are shadows made of?`
Why is Apple called apple? According to some sources, it’s simply because the fruit was one that founder Steve Jobs enjoyed. Pretty simple. The company has grown dramatically over the past decades and now employs more people than a small city – over 90,000 people!
Love can cause all kinds of irrationality – in the Victorian era, for example, signing a Valentine’s Card was believed to bring bad luck. Also, if a girl sees a squirrel on February 14, her husband is supposed to be a skinflint.
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Kids can be quite inquisitive. A 2013 study from an online retailer recorded the questions that children ask the adults around them. On average, the adults answered nearly 300 questions per day! The hardest questions adults said they were asked included ‘Why is water wet?’ and ‘What are shadows made of?`
Why is Apple called apple? According to some sources, it’s simply because the fruit was one that founder Steve Jobs enjoyed. Pretty simple. The company has grown dramatically over the past decades and now employs more people than a small city – over 90,000 people!
Love can cause all kinds of irrationality – in the Victorian era, for example, signing a Valentine’s Card was believed to bring bad luck. Also, if a girl sees a squirrel on February 14, her husband is supposed to be a skinflint.
Lance Corporal Billy Windsor is a salaried member of the British Army who happens to be a goat. He has the right to be saluted by subordinates and in 2006 was briefly demoted for headbutting a drummer in the first battalion on the Queen’s Birthday.
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