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Scrabble  is one the biggest selling and most popular board games of all time. Hot worldwide, among the old and young, Scrabble  sure is a heavy-hitter in the board game world. At over 70 years old,  Scrabble  is probably older than your parents! But did you know that the game underwent a few name changes before being settled upon as  Scrabble ? Or do you know why the first ever World Championships of  Scrabble  couldn’t be started? Find out why below in these 30 fun facts about  Scrabble ! Scrabble  was invented in 1931 by New York architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Butts invented the game in an attempt to create a word game that combined anagrams and crosswords, which involved luck, chance and a great deal of skill. Butts died at the age of 93 in 1993. Back in 1931, the original name for  Scrabble  was ‘ Lexico ‘, before becoming ‘ Criss-Cross Words ‘ and eventually ‘ Scrabble ‘. ‘ Lexico ‘ is a shortened version of the word ‘...

The number thirty is a number just like any other number. Numbers each have their own value depending on what importance people give to them, maybe it’s your date of birth, or anniversary, or maybe you find it to be your lucky number. Well, whatever the reason, here’s thirty facts you probably didn’t know about the number 30. (Wow, I’ve said numbers a lot already!) In Bingo, the ball 30 is known as “Dirty Gertie, Blind 30”. A polygon with 30 sides is a triacontagon. The number 30 is known as a Harshad number, or a number divisible by the sum of its digits. In  Back to The Future , Marty McFly travelled 30 years back in time. The number 30, but separated by two hyphens is used to indicate the end of a newspaper story (-30-). To see anything related to the number 30 in your dreams usually means that someone or something lacks truth. Someone is lying to you or something is not be what it seems. In the periodic table of elements, Phosphorus has an atom...

I have searched high and low to find you the most bizarre, interesting facts about technology from the very first computer, to technology of the future. A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda, not a fox! Dragon Skin Body Armour is a newer invention that can withstand a grenade explosion at point-blank range. The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head. Google rents out goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ! The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was a college drop out. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh Computer. The word robot comes from the Czech “ robota “. This translates into forced labour, or work. CD’s, or Compact discs read from the inside to the o...

As one of the most complex organs on the human body, the eye continues to surprise over and over again, as scientists find out more about it. From pupils expanding at the sight of someone you love, to 500 visible shades of grey, find out more about the eye than you ever knew before! Despite the amount of noise a new-born baby makes, they can’t actually produce tears when they cry: their tear ducts don’t start working until they are between 4 – 13 weeks old. Both eyes have a blind spot on the back of the retina where the optic nerve attaches, however you won’t notice this, due to the way eyes work together to fill gaps in your vision. Everyone around the world with blue eyes shares a common ancestor: the first person with blue eyes lived around 6,000 – 10,000 years ago, and before that, everyone had brown eyes. If you wore glasses that flipped images upside down, your brain would eventually correct your vision, and you’d see things the right way up. Some eye surgery uses sha...

Teeth are used on a daily basis, often without us even realizing or recognizing the fact. From opening up difficult packages, to chomping down on various foods, our teeth are a multipurpose tool that have been available to us since our infancy. Despite the fact that nearly everyone has teeth, or had teeth, there is still a lot of mystery and misconceptions surrounding them. So educate and amaze yourself with these ten crazy facts about your teeth below! Tatteeth, or tattoos for your teeth, are a real thing. With all of the radical things you can do to your body these days, tattooing your teeth is probably one of the strangest.  Tattoos  are not actually applied to a person’s real teeth. In fact they’re simply tattooed onto the caps or crowns. Symbols, images, or pictures of whatever you want can be put onto the teeth cap before it’s inserted into your mouth. So yes, you can have your beloved cat’s photo tattooed onto your teeth. It’s cheaper to get dentures than to get...

If you’re bored and have ten minutes to kill, then why not check out this awesome list of the top one hundred most random and funny facts. Banging your head against a wall  burns 150 calories  an hour. In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day! Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers! When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red. A flock of crows is known as a murder. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists. The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years. 29th May is officially “ Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day “. Cherophobia is the fear of fun. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. If you lift a  kangaroo’s  tail off the ground it can’t hop. Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females. The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made ...

I quit college and used the money to buy a car. The car was a used Honda Civic. I drove around for a few hours and then I dropped the car back off at the dealership and cancelled the check and went back to college. Two huge mistakes in one day. One was fun and stupid. The other cost me years and money. There’s two types of mistakes: ones that eventually make you a better person. And ones that make you a worse person, afraid to break out of the box, afraid to explore and be an artist and take risks and surrender to what isn’t in your control. Some mistakes are out of your control. Some mistakes you make because you listen too much to others. (“be a good boy and do THIS”). Having them and complaining about them and blaming others and not learning from them is the worst mistake a young person can make. And here are some other mistakes that young people (i.e. me) make:   1. HAVE AN OPINION What opinion can you possibly have? Global warming? Ok, good luck changin...

Ø   “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” Ø   “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” Ø   “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” Ø   “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” Ø   “You w...