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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Fall colors are caused by the amount of sugar in leaves. The more red in the leaf, the more sugar the leaf is storing. This is why Maple trees are so amazing, whereas Evergreens don’t change colors because their leaves have a thick wax covering that protects the chlorophyll in the leaves themselves.
Sonic is more than 25 years old, but Sonic the character is still a babe! According to the games he’s only 15 years old. Little guy hasn’t aged since 1991! Either that or all of his games take place in the same year...
July 7th is ‘Chocolate Day’ so make sure you eat plenty of it this year! Chocolate was first officially brought to Europe on July 7th, 1550. However, some sources suggest it hit the continent’s shores as far back as 1504 thanks to a certain sweet-tooth by the name of Christopher Columbus.
Fact Lab
Fall colors are caused by the amount of sugar in leaves. The more red in the leaf, the more sugar the leaf is storing. This is why Maple trees are so amazing, whereas Evergreens don’t change colors because their leaves have a thick wax covering that protects the chlorophyll in the leaves themselves.
Sonic is more than 25 years old, but Sonic the character is still a babe! According to the games he’s only 15 years old. Little guy hasn’t aged since 1991! Either that or all of his games take place in the same year...
July 7th is ‘Chocolate Day’ so make sure you eat plenty of it this year! Chocolate was first officially brought to Europe on July 7th, 1550. However, some sources suggest it hit the continent’s shores as far back as 1504 thanks to a certain sweet-tooth by the name of Christopher Columbus.
Uno was invented in 1971 by Merle Robbins, a barber from Ohio. Robbins had an argument with his son about the rules of the card game, Crazy Eights, and decided to make his own game afterwards! When he finally showed his family what he's invented, they loved it and printed the game as a pack of cards!