1720

I love Risk! Haven't played in a while

Off to nap

Actually, according to the Monopoly Companion, they are the 2nd most frequently landed on. But the highest in terms of payoff. On average, you can regain 23.5% of investment in the oranges each time an opponent completes a trip around the board.

#1721

Again, according to the Monopoly Companion, the RAILROADS are the most frequently landed on group. Each trip around the board, a person has a 64% chance of landing on a railroad.

#1722

#1723~The biggest Chinatown in the United States is in San Francisco.

#1724~The Mayflower's last port of call before setting sail for America was Plymouth.

#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.

#1726

#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).

#1728

#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.

#1731

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

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

#1732

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."

#1733

#1734

#1735

#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.

#1739~The most common name in nursery rhymes is Jack.

#1740~Chess derives its name from the Persian word for king.

1741

penis is derrived from the latin word for dick:p

Well this has been a fact filled morning.

#1742

1743

panty is derrived from the Italian word for yummy:D

#1744
 

I am not an aircraft enthusiast, but I question what year the B-52 came into production. Didn’t think we had it during WWII. Not even sure we had it in Korea>

#1745
 

YUMMY I know, but are you sure it's Italian? :(

#1746
 

And wasn’t that the year a Cleveland kid (Jesse Owens) first made Hitler twitch?:D

#1747
 

That’s less than once every 3 days for a man of 70 that started at 12.
I should have been dead at 21 years and 9 months.:eek:




What kind of facts are we getting?:confused:

#1749

#1750
 

Turn around here and let me check that tail. :p :D

Yada, Yada, Yada....quoteth Sienfeld, nevermore....

#1750

Re: #1744
 

Actually, I'm dyslexic this morning. Should be B-25. Geez. You can tell it's been a bad day when it's noon and I'm still in my PJs, much less not able to type, which is what I do for a living. :)

FYI: Those who were around on July 28, 1945 would remember the crash of an Army Air Corps B-25 bomber into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Fourteen people died and $1 million damage was done to the building.

Amazingly, the structure of the building was not severely damaged.



#1751

Re: #1747
 

The key word is AVERAGE. We all know you're exceptional. ;)

#1752

#1754

You guys need to go back and double check your post numbers :)

Re: #1744
 

#1755



It probably was not available for Korea, no.

1951 US Airforce Orders B- 52 Bomber The US Airforce ordered production models of the B-52 Bomber from Boeing. The B-52 was set to replace the B-36 Bomber. It has eight engines and a total bomb load of 50,000 pounds. The B-52 can fly non-stop for a total of 15,000 miles.

The plane took its first flight on April 15, 1952. The huge plane had a 48-foot (five-story) (15-meter) dorsal fin and its wings had an area of 4,000 square feet (372 square meters). As test pilot Tex Johnson fired up the engines that, according to a reporter, sounded like a "piercing cry," the watching crowd was worried that the test would fail. But for nearly three hours, the plane performed admirably, and its first test was a success, as were subsequent tests. The air force ordered more B-52s.

The first batch was delivered to SAC in 1954.

#1754
 

SMARTASS! :mad:





LOL NO! I don’t remember that.:rolleyes:

#1757~Guess that'll teach me to look at the one above me, won't it?

1758

LOL

#1759