#1725~A housecat has 18 claws.

More Monopoly stats:

Of the color groups, the dark purples have the lowest investment cost (property, houses and hotels) at $620.
The Greens are the most expensive, at $3920.

Oranges have the highest payoff, and the utilities the lowest.

Dark blues have the highest potential pay off (duh) and the utilities the least.

Railroads are the most frequent spaces of any group to land on (oranges are the most frequent color group), and dark purples are the least frequent.

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#1727~The oldest public park in the U.S. is Boston Common.

Monopoly-themed games have included "Advance to Boardwalk", Free Parking, Don't Go to Jail, and the Monopoly card game. (I think only the last one is still in print, but Free Parking might be if you look around at game stores).

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#1729~The first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross was Amelia Earhart.

#1730~Hail is most prevalent in summer.

Current Monopoly editions from Hasbro include the Disney edition, the America Special Edition, Pokemon Gold and Silver, the standard edition and the Deluxe edition.

USAopoly and Winning Moves are two of the official licencees of Monopoly, and have made boards such as the Coca-Cola Edition, the Peanuts edition, the Garfield 25th Anniversary edition, the Corvette edition, the Ford Mustang edition, the Ford centennial edition, boards for Chicago, Las Vegas, New England, New York City, San Diego and Utah.

The original board is based on Atlantic City, although Marven Gardens is misspelled, the B&O never serviced Atlantic City, and the Short Line was a bus company.

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For other facts about Monopoly, see Hasbro's website at

http://www.monopoly.com/pl/page.funfacts/dn/default.cfm

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The board game Clue only goes by that name in North America. It was invented in England in 1944 and introduced to the US by Parker Brothers in 1949. In most of the rest of the world it's known as Cluedo (ludo is latin for "I Play").
In Brazil it's known as "Detetive."

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#1735~Neil Armstrong first put down his left foot on the moon.

#1736~Natural vanilla flavoring comes from the orchid.

#1737~The 79th floor of the Empire State Building was hit by a B-52 bomber on July 28, 1945.

#1738~Cinderella's real name was Ella.