Dominoes dates back to the 12th century! It was played in China during the Yuan Dynasty and was referred to as 'pupai'!
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For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!
According to Oxford Dictionaries, the letter ‘e’ appears in about 11 percent of all English words, making it the most popular letter! The second most popular letter in the English language is ‘a’ which appears in about 8.5 percent of all words. And the least common letter? That would be ‘q’ which appears in just 0.2 percent of words.
Queen Elizabeth II appears on more currency than any other figure - she’s on the cash of 30 different countries! These include Canada, Australia, Jamaica, Mauritius, the Cayman Islands, St. Helena and Gibraltar.
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For approximately 200 years, microscope technology remained relatively unchanged. In the 1850s, however, Carl Zeiss, a German engineer, developed improvements for the device! Joseph Jackson Lister also helped eliminate the unequal bending of light hitting the microscope lens, leading to further improvements!
According to Oxford Dictionaries, the letter ‘e’ appears in about 11 percent of all English words, making it the most popular letter! The second most popular letter in the English language is ‘a’ which appears in about 8.5 percent of all words. And the least common letter? That would be ‘q’ which appears in just 0.2 percent of words.
Queen Elizabeth II appears on more currency than any other figure - she’s on the cash of 30 different countries! These include Canada, Australia, Jamaica, Mauritius, the Cayman Islands, St. Helena and Gibraltar.
In the Unites States, it is statistically likely that you would eat about 6000 slices of pizza over the course of your entire life. Pizza is not so new. In fact, it dates back to over a thousand years and was mentioned in a Latin text written in 997 CE.
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