True or False?

The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas! These microscopes were simple in construction, using different shapes and sizes of glass with low power (6x to 10x). They were invented by the Romans.

In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.

The ‘farthing’ was a unit of currency used in Britain from 1860 and 1956, and equalled one quarter of a penny. A predecessor of the coin was minted all the way back in 1060, and was shaped like a clover where any of the four leaves could be broken off and used as an individual coin!