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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Are you trying to learn a new language? Well, according to several studies, its actually easier learning a third language than learning a second language! This is because patterns will start to emerge that will make it easier to learn new languages after you have learned the second one!
The very first Thanksgiving was held by the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. For Thanksgiving they ate lobster, chestnuts, rabbit and fish among other things. Sadly, for them, there was no mashed potato or pumpkin pie!
Between the 1590s and 1660s, the optical microscope was developed by Zacharias, Hans Jensen and Anton van Leeuwenhowek, among others. Anton van Leeuwenhoek used the simple compound microscope to observe bacteria in droplets of water!
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Are you trying to learn a new language? Well, according to several studies, its actually easier learning a third language than learning a second language! This is because patterns will start to emerge that will make it easier to learn new languages after you have learned the second one!
The very first Thanksgiving was held by the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower. For Thanksgiving they ate lobster, chestnuts, rabbit and fish among other things. Sadly, for them, there was no mashed potato or pumpkin pie!
Between the 1590s and 1660s, the optical microscope was developed by Zacharias, Hans Jensen and Anton van Leeuwenhowek, among others. Anton van Leeuwenhoek used the simple compound microscope to observe bacteria in droplets of water!
Most dogs have pink tongues, but the Chow Chow and the Shar-Pei are the only two breeds that have entirely black tongues! This mysterious phenomenon has no known cause to date, which makes them all the more mysterious!