On this date (Feb 7) in 1935, the classic board game Monopoly was finalized and published by Parker Brothers. Since its creation, more than a billion people have played it, making it the most played commercially available board game in
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On this date (Jan 28)…
On this date (Jan 28) in the year 1754, the word serendipity was first coined. In a letter to Horace Mann, Horace Walpole said that he formed the word based on the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip,
On this date (Jan 24)…
On this date (Jan 24) in 1972, Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in the jungles of Guam. He was a Japanese soldier who had been hiding in a cave since 1944, believing that World War II was still going strong. Yokoi
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