If you’ve played Connect Four, you might be surprised to know that a board has 4,531,985,219,092 possible positions.
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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!
The rarest and oldest deck of cards is believed to be a particular 52-card deck from the mid-15th Century. It can be found in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!
The rarest and oldest deck of cards is believed to be a particular 52-card deck from the mid-15th Century. It can be found in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
P Diddy, changes his stage name all the time. He was known as "Puffy" when he was a kid, then he went by "Puff Daddy" as a label head and artist in the 1990s. By 2005, he reemerged as "P. Diddy,"
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