Countries of the World

The last time Olympic Gold Medals were made mostly of gold was for the 1912 Olympics. Today’s Gold Medals are made mostly of silver. An Olympic medal made of pure gold would be pretty expensive, coming in around 28,000 thousand dollars!

Before the reusable plastic boards were introduced, Battleship was played with sheets of grid paper and a writing tool! It wasn't until 1967 that the plastic boards and small plastic ships were finally used in the game. They proved so popular that the paper version was retired.

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!